Warren commits to no funding for Yucca

As reported by the Nevada Independent:

Warren committed to not funding a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, something Trump has repeatedly included in his budget.

“It’s a seismically unstable area, and storing nuclear waste there would be a threat to our country,” Warren said.

She also supports consent-based siting — that is, community buy-in where the waste will be stored — and suggested that the country find a location that is “stable and distant from population centers” for its long-term nuclear waste storage problem.

Exchange Monitor: Nevada Lawmakers Call on House Appropriators to Block Yucca Mountain, Plutonium

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

Updated - Tuesday, April 02, 2019

The Exchange Monitor - Nevada Lawmakers Call on House Appropriators to Block Yucca Mountain, Plutonium - By Exchange Monitor [article is behind pay wall, but free trial subscription is available]

• U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources - Full Committee Hearing to Examine the President's FY 2020 Budget Request for DOE

• U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Updated - Monday, April 01, 2019

• House.gov - Reps. Titus, Lee, Horsford Send Letter Urging Appropriations Committee to Block Yucca Mountain and Plutonium Shipments
• Fox Reno - NV Representatives send letter urging committee to block Yucca Mountain plutonium shipment - By News 4 & Fox 11 Digital Team
• Las Vegas Review Journal - Nevada House Democrats draw lines on plutonium, Yucca - By Gary Martin

Updated - Sunday, March 31, 2019
Salon - Nevada wants the Department of Energy to remove deadly plutonium - Sarah Okeson

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (U.S. Sen. from CA) would kill Yucca Mtn. dump

As reported by the Associated Press:

Making her first campaign visit to northern Nevada on Tuesday, Harris told about 100 people at the raucous Battle Born Progress gathering in Carson City that she wouldn’t allow a nuclear waste repository to be built at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas if she’s elected president.

...Harris says she’s united with Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in opposing the Trump administration’s push to restart the licensing process for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas.

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

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

March 28, 2019 (40th annual commemoration of Three Mile Island Unit 2 meltdown)

• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Senate committee wants Yucca Mountain decision now - By Gary Martin

March 26, 2019

• KDWN - Energy Secretary Perry Defends Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage Plan
• KTVN - Sec. Perry Defends Plan for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste
• Daily Journal - Perry defends plan for Nevada nuclear-waste storage site - By Ellen Knickmeyer
• KOLO - Energy Sec. defends plan for NV nuclear waste storage site - By AP

• The Japan Times - Rick Perry defends Trump camp plan for Nevada nuclear-waste storage site - AP

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:

• Index Journal - Duncan hails Trump's Yucca Mountain funding proposal - By Adam Benson

[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.]