"Nevada nuclear commission ready to strike back after pro-Yucca hearing in Congress:"
Members of the commission — which advises the governor and Legislature on radioactive waste issues — said they and Nevada’s congressional delegation were taken aback by the harsh tenor and lack of knowledge that subcommittee members displayed during the April 10 hearing.
The US's 100,000 year nuclear waste repository was always going to be Yucca Mt. in Nevada. Obama briefly pretended it wasn't, but the fact that it is located in the #NNSS, former #Nevada nuclear test site, has always been why. Countries pretend to look for the "best" site geologically, and it always ends up coincidentally being a current nuclear site.
"Yucca Mountain rises again in Congress"
#YuccaMt. #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/d-c-download-yucca-mountain-rises-again-in-congress
In a Wednesday hearing on the management of spent nuclear fuel in the House Energy & Commerce Committee — no Nevadans are members — leaders took turns lamenting that the Yucca site, first chosen as the sole site in 1987 and approved for funding in 2002, still houses no nuclear waste due to the power of multiple generations of Nevada politicians.
Bo Jacobs