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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April 24, 2019Democratic presidential contender Cory Booker (Democratic U.S. Senator from NJ) opposes Yucca dump in NV
As reported by the Reno Gazette Journal:
He also told the RGJ he would abandon a federal attempt to revive the stalled nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, located about 100 miles northwest of his mother’s home in Las Vegas.
Yucca Mountain advocates pursue more nuke waste funds
(Please note -- the Yucca dump scheme is for permanent disposal, not "storage," as the article reports.)
It is not just the State of Nevada, and the Western Shoshone Indian Nation (and other indigenous peoples, including the Goshutes and Southern Paiutes), but also 1,000+ environmental groups, which have successfully resisted the Yucca dump for 32 years and counting. Here is partial list:
http://archives.nirs.us/radwaste/yucca/yuccaopponentslist.htm
Yucca dump proponents, like U.S. Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI), Mike Simpson (R-ID), and John Shimkus (R-IL), are essentially saying "Consent-based siting? Screw Nevada!"
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democratic presidential candidate, expresses opposition to Yucca dump in NV
As reported by the Nevada Independent:
As her Las Vegas visit wrapped up Monday morning, Klobuchar also addressed a very Nevada issue — Yucca Mountain and the controversial secret shipment of plutonium that occurred last year.
Klobuchar said she supports “consent-based decisions” regarding the storage of nuclear waste and condemned the plutonium incident.
“That was outrageous,” she said. “What are we like back in, like, the early days of Siberia or something? That is the exact kind of thing that causes distrust in our government, and the administration should never have let that happen.”