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The Perfect Plate for the Nuclear Family Car

Posted by chrisd on from the nevada-is-americas-holster dept.

In what must be a dream come true for some, Nevada has approved a License Plate commemorating the Test Site and the connections Nevada enjoys with Nuclear weapons in the United States. The Associated Press article on the subject notes that a lot of people are up in arms about the new design, as Nevada is embroiled in controversy over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. The license features an atom. a mushroom cloud as the background and the equation E=mc2 on the plate. I was unable to find a picture of the plate on the web (I saw it in my morning paper). I'm sure a picture must be on the web somewhere. I'll leave it to slashdotters to suggest the best personalized lettering for the plate. My entry: DUKNCVR?

2 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. CNN - story and picture by Andorion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is the story on CNN, complete with a picture.

    Enjoy =)

    -Berj

  2. paraphrased from cnn ... by -=Izzy=- · · Score: 1, Redundant

    More than 100,000 workers helped develop the nation's nuclear arsenal in Nevada, and more than 800 fell ill for their efforts.

    If they're talking about the legacy of the Test Site, I don't think they should use a mushroom cloud unless they show what it did to the people who live here and worked out there,