September 16, 2013

Sen. Reid Stalls Movement of Nuclear Waste To Yucca Mountain Contrary To Law




[From article]
Nevada's Sen. Harry Reid, like almost all Nevadans, regards the repository as a threat to Las Vegas, a gamblers' destination that lives off tourists who are demonstrably irrational about probabilities. Reid prefers the status quo — more than 160 million Americans living within 75 miles of one or more of the 121 locations where over 70,000 tons of nuclear waste are kept.
The court, which was concerned only with the law, not the mountain, said "the president must follow statutory mandates so long as there is appropriated money available and the president has no constitutional objection to the statute." He has none, and Reid has not yet quite succeeded in starving the NRC of funding for the Yucca licensing process.


http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will082213.php3#.UhmR3N00jDo
           
Jewish World Review
A mountain of illegality
By George Will
August 22,2013

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