BIDEN'S CABINET NOMINEES: Opposition to Yucca dump, transport risks

At a January 21 U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for President Biden's nominee to lead the Transportation Department, former South Bend, Indiana mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, Jacky Rosen (Democrat-Nevada) expressed strong opposition to the high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at Yucca Mountain (photo, above), including the risks to most states from irradiated nuclear fuel transportation. Buttigieg responded, "I share the concerns that you’ve raised, not just from the Nevada perspective but all across the route." At a January 27 hearing for Biden's Energy Secretary nominee, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) elicited agreement that Yucca is not workable, and support for consent-based siting, which the state, and Western Shoshone, have never granted. MORE.

Update on March 17, 2021 by admin

See Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman's March 3rd article in Truthout, about other Biden Cabinet members' -- including Energy Secretary Granholm's -- unfortunate and inappropriate pro-nuclear advocacy.