Science news articles about 'hoover dam'

... -the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless quagga mussel to bring operators of this ...

... incident are local law enforcement, although Hoover Dam has an on-site police department and Grand ... overridden, allowing an intruder to take control of dam operations. To improve security, BOR needs ...

... Pierce found that Lake Mead, the reservoir on the Colorado River created by Hoover Dam, stood a 50-percent chance of going dry in the next 20 years if the climate changed and no ...

Could nuclear power plants last as long as the Hoover Dam?Increasingly dependable and emitting few greenhouse gases, the U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants will likely run for ...