Las Vegas, NV - There is increasing fallout over a planned nuclear disaster drill in the entertainment capital of the world.

The FEMA training drill would simulate a nuclear detonation in Las Vegas and would include 10,000 national, state and local emergency responders.

This simulated disaster is set to take place in May, 2010 but Las Vegas business and tourist leaders, as well as politicians, are urging changes.

"We believe such a scenario will generate undue anxiety about visiting or conducting business in Las Vegas," says Rossi Ralenkotter, president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor's Authority.  "This will have an extremely harmful effect towards our economic recovery efforts."

The LVCVA is not opposed to the drill outright, but would like the scenario changed to another, less potentially image-damaging disaster drill such as a flood, fire or earthquake.

Senator Harry Reid opposes the drill outright and has sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging his "strenuous objections" to the planned drill.

"Economic recovery efforts would be stymied, or reversed entirely, by artificially creating anxiety surrounding tourism and investment in Las Vegas," Reid says in his letter to Napolitano.