Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain, the Nevada-based, scientifically flawed and politically unjust proposed high-level radioactive waste repository has now been canceled. However, pro-nuclear forces in Congress have not abandoned Yucca and funding is still allocated to the project.

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Entries from March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

Thursday
Mar282019

Trump's Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, doubles down on Yucca dump

Sunday
Mar242019

Index Journal: U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) hails Trump's Yucca Mountain funding proposal

As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Project's "What's News" website section:

[U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan is a Republican from South Carolina. SC is the state with the third-most atomic reactors in the U.S., after IL and PA.]

Sunday
Mar242019

Nevada Independent: Democratic hopeful O'Rourke says he won't look to fund Yucca Mountain facility

Wednesday
Mar132019

Yucca dump news, reported by State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects

Saturday
Mar092019

WA Gov. Jay Inslee, Democratic presidential candidate, blasts secretive DOE plutonium shipment to NV

As reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Not reported in the article, however, is the fact that Inslee voted in favor of the Yucca Mountain dump in the U.S. House of Representatives, in May 2002. The vote was to override Nevada's governor's veto of the Yucca dump. That fight goes on.