Appeals Court Update On Yucca Mountain

I have been rather harsh on the Pahrump Valley Times, but I have to give credit to them for running several articles on a Federal Appeals Court case while the Las Vegas media has ignored it.
From the PVT:  Federal appeals judges indicated Wednesday they were troubled over the licensing shutdown of Yucca Mountain, but they struggled whether the nuclear waste project might be too dead to order it revived.
Both sides faced sharp questioning in the case that pits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission against plaintiffs that include South Carolina and Washington state that hold millions of gallons of nuclear waste with no promise of a place to send it ever since the Nevada repository plan was terminated.
Nye County, which views the Yucca project as a potential economic boom if it were to be built on the edge of the Nevada Test Site, also is a plaintiff in the case. Darrell Lacy, director of the Nye County Nuclear Waste Project Office, was in court alongside Robert Andersen, the county’s Washington, D.C. attorney.
The case before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is the last remaining legal challenge to the Obama administration that began closing out the program in 2009 and set out to develop a new waste strategy.
In a courtroom crowded with lawyers, industry representatives and former Yucca Mountain managers, Washington state Assistant Attorney General Andrew Fitz argued the NRC acted improperly to close out repository licensing last year and should be ordered to resume it.
A federal law still in effect requires the agency to complete the license review and ultimately issue a safety decision, Fitz said.
The NRC, he said, “chose to abdicate its duties. The NRC’s duty is to comply with the law.”
With $10 million left over in a repository budget, the NRC could resume the license case for some period of time and release key reports containing its staff’s views on whether the Yucca site might be safe, Fitz said.
http://pvtimes.com/news/judges-unsure-in-yucca-appeal/
When Coward/Crazy/Demented Harry Reid and suck up to Reid, President Obama closed Yucca, they did it illegally and without any clear reason other than they hate nuclear power.  There is no intellectual reason why Yucca cannot be used to store nuclear fuel there.  Yucca has been shown to be safe and Nevada already holds low level nuclear power in other dump sites, so there is no intellectual reason to close the site down. Dementia plagued and coward Harry Reid thinks people will not come to Las Vegas if we open up Yucca but of course the dementia of Reid shows that he forgot that atomic bombs were set off above ground just north and west of Las Vegas and we still get 30,000,000+ visitors to Las Vegas..
So, let's hope that the judges in Washington DC can see the errors of Reid and Obama and order Yucca reopened.  It is the only intelligent decision to be made.