"We don't even produce nuclear energy" - Nevada senators fight Yucca at hearing
Nevada senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen testified against the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019 during a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Tuesday. The measure would restart the process of attempting to license nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.
Cortez Masto told the committee people “falsely” believe Yucca Mountain is prepared for nuclear waste disposal, adding that there are “no waste disposal tunnels. No waste handling facilities. No monitoring infrastructure. No containment infrastructure. No railroad infrastructure needed for transporting waste into the site.”
Calling Yucca Mountain “a five mile exploratory hole in the ground” and a “national security threat” Cortez Masto said that seismic activity and the area’s penchant for earthquakes, as well as it’s position over an aquifer, makes it unsuitable as nuclear waste repository.
“For over 30 years, many in Congress have been trying to force a repository facility on Nevada, despite the fact that Nevada does not generate or consume nuclear energy, and that Yucca Mountain is a seismically and geologically unfit site to store this dangerous material,” Cortez Masto said.
Read more: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/blog/we-dont-even-produce-nuclear-energy-nevada-senators-fight-yucca-at-hearing/
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