According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository in his home state of Nevada is dead, dead, dead, and no amount of huffing from the judiciary changes that. Do not believe it. The D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals this week delivered a scathing rebuke to the Obama administration, ordering it to restart work on the Yucca licensing process. Mr. Reid went into full spin mode, declaring that the order means nothing, because he has guaranteed the project has no money.
The place is locked up, its padlocked, he declared. Nothing is happening with Yucca Mountain. Yucca Mountain is an afterthought. This is bluster, even if the media swallowed it whole. Make no mistake, Mr. Reid has for years single-handedly thwarted Congress will to create a deep storage facility for spent fuel in Nevada. It was Mr. Reid who used his perch on the Senate Appropriations Committee to routinely cut back Yucca money.
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