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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYucca Mountain: (Patty) Murray breaks silence, urges NRC to review repository
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In her letter, Murray peppered Macfarlane with questions about the regulatory process moving forward, and whether the NRC had enough funds and authority to complete safety reviews, consider widespread comments on the site and update an environmental impact statement. For the past three decades, she said, independent studies have found Yucca Mountain to be the "nation's best option" for storing high-level waste, and Congress and previous administrations have voted for, funded and supported pursuing the option.
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Her break comes as Reid prepares to leave the top perch in the Senate. Reid is the best-known critic of the site and has called dumping waste there a "failed policy," noting that the government pulled its support for the repository five years ago.
Reid has also said he will do "everything within his power" to ensure the project is never resurrected and "doesn't receive another dime."
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060009228
niyad
(113,552 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)that was in GD a few days ago.
niyad
(113,552 posts)FBaggins
(26,758 posts)Maria Cantwell (likely to become the ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee since Landrieux is probably on her way out) is of a similar opinion for similar reasons.
Really, it's just Harry Reid's power that held it up for so long. This hasn't really been a D vs R thing (or a pro-nuke vs. anti thing)... it's really Nevada vs. most of the rest of the country (with Nevada holding the Senate leader trump card).
niyad
(113,552 posts)do you know exactly what yucca mountain is, where it is, and what the problem is? why most nevadans are opposed? does the word earthquakes ring a bell, amoung other things?
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)The majority of people in Nevada don't want Yucca Mtn and now that they control the legislature in Nevada this could kill them in 2016 if Reid the Democratic party in Nevada run on this against them, it could destroy them in state elections for years to come.
Chess move...think about it.
FBaggins
(26,758 posts)A win-win in my mind.
But don't they also oppose it? I could have sworn that the (R) governor is opposed to it.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)vote in favor despite what the Governor thinks. In the next two years we are going to see the GOP start fighting amongst themselves, the corporate vs tea party split is going to ugly and divisive. We need to get out the popcorn and enjoy the show.
FBaggins
(26,758 posts)But he ran on the issue and beat an incumbent... so we'll see how much additional damage the issue can do to him.
The rest of them can just vote against it if they want to avoid political fallout. It isn't as though the vote will be close enough for their votes to matter.
In the next two years we are going to see the GOP start fighting amongst themselves
Certainly... but I wouldn't expect much of that to be related to Yucca.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)Take a look at the "Blue Diamond" exit off of interstate 15 - it is a huge road in the middle of almost nowhere. This is the exit the trucks would take to get to Yucca Mtn. if another access road is not built. The railroad tracks run under Blue Diamond Road at a huge overpass. The infrastucture is there just waiting for a Republican majority in Congress. A Republican President would seal the deal.
FBaggins
(26,758 posts)Just Reid out of his particular position of power.