Nevada Newest Congressman Position on Yucca Mountain

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Date posted: 11/12/14

Amber Phillips reported that newly elected Congressman Cresent Hardy is the first member of Nevada congressional delegation in decades to publicly say he would support a proposal to store nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. If everything is safe, if the science says its safe for transportation, safe for storage, safe for all of the above, then he is a supporter of it. Hardy said. That position puts Hardy at odds with members of his own party, such as Republican Sen. Dean Heller, who opposes the project under any circumstance. It also sets him up for a fight with the delegation most powerful member, Liberal Sen. Harry Reid, who has almost single-handedly stopped the project in the Senate.