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What happened to Yucca Mining and Petroleum Company originating in Colorado?

It changed its corporate name to Power Resources, Inc.


Were the Anasazi naked?

No, they were not naked as they wore clothes made out of turkey or feather robes. They loved jewelry and even wore shoes woven of yucca and hemp.


What material did the yuma Indians use to make their clothes?

they hunted animals got the furr and skin and wool


What did the Arapaho Indians eat?

The Apache diet consisted of approximately 35-40% meat and 60-65% vegetation. Meat consisted of primarily deer. But other common examples are pronghorns, cottontail rabbits, opossums, squirrels, surplus horses, surplus mules, wapiti (elk), wild cattle, wood rats, bighorn sheep, buffalo, wild steers, beavers, chief hares, chipmunks, doves, groundhogs, grouse, peccaries, porcupines, prairie dogs, quail, rabbits, skunks, snow birds, turkey, black bears, burros, ducks, fish, mountain lions, mourning doves, mules, turtles, geese, badgers, fowls, and otters. The vegetation portion of the diet includes baked and dried agave crowns that they smashed into a pulp and formed into cakes, saguaro, prickly pears, cholla fruits, mesquite beans, Spanish bayonet fruit, Emory oak acorns, juniper berries, pinyon nuts, century plant, anglepod seeds, banana yucca fruit, chili peppers, chokecherries, currants, Gambel oak acorns and bark, grass seeds, hawthorne fruit, and MANY more. Usually, anything local they would eat.


What clothing did pueblos wear?

Most Pueblo Indians wore modest and simple clothing. Because they lived in a warm environment they tended to wear simple skin kilts for men, and women wore simple skin dresses wrapped around the torso and breasts.

Related questions

What is the name of the Defunct nuclear waste storage site in Nevada?

It is the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.


Is the proposed national storge site for nuclear waste?

Yucca Mountain


Where is the Yucca mountain located?

The Yucca Mountain is in western Nevada alongnear the California border. Yucca Mountain was considered for a repository for nuclear waste. Those plans were stopped 2010.


What testing was done at yucca mountain?

There was no testing done at Yucca mountain; it is just a place where they plan on storing nuclear waste in order to dispose of it.


Where does the US send nuclear waste?

For now nuclear waste is stored on site where the waste was generated. In a few years US will begin to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada but no official date has been set.


How will waste be stored at yucca mountain?

no


How much nuclear waste does Yucca Mountain contain today?

None at all, no license has been granted and I don't think the NRC have even started considering it. In fact I believe it is no longer supported by the Federal Govt.


What does Yucca Mountain have to do with nuclear radiation?

people are planning to store nuclear radiation there.


Why do state oppose yucca mountain?

Yucca Mountain is a nuclear waste repository and, even though precautions have been taken, the materials stored there are extremely dangerous and will continue to be for thousands of years. It was defunded in 2011 and no other site has been designated for this waste. It is a case of "not in my backyard" as far as any state wanting the storage.


What does nuclear waste have to do with Nevada?

There was a proposal to build a long term waste store at Yucca Mountain in Nevada but this seems to have been abandoned, waste is to be stored on the power plant sites as it has been ever since they were built.


Waste stored in a plant and why?

It should be stored in safe storage in sparsely inhabited, seismically quiet areas. But, here kicks in NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). See about Yucca mountain nuclear waste storage.


Where does the US government plan to restore the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants?

They plan to store it below the base ofYucca Mountain in the VERY BARREN Nevada Yucca Desert