U.S. House Votes To Restore Funding To Yucca Mt.

From the LVRJ: The House voted by a wide margin Wednesday to restore a slice of funding for the Yucca Mountain repository, signalling it remains unhappy with President Barack Obama's decision to terminate the nuclear waste project.
The 326-81 vote was arranged by a Republican lawmaker from Illinois to show the Nevada site still enjoys support from members of Congress from both parties.
The amendment by Rep. John Shimkus shifts $10 million to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume licensing for the controversial site, on top of $35 million already allocated for the project in an energy bill....
Shimkus argued the agency must complete its review of the Yucca site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
"The NRC, not political games, will determine whether Yucca Mountain would make a safe repository," Shimkus said. "Having spent 30 years and $15 billion of ratepayer money, the American people at least deserve to find out the answer to whether Yucca is safe.
The $10 million, which was shift from an Energy Department administrative account, was made part of a $32.1 billion energy and water spending bill for fiscal 2013.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/house-backs-revival-of-yucca-repository-157646215.html
For those of us who support the reopening of Yucca Mountain, this is good news.  Yucca Mountain will provide high paying jobs and the counties that surround Yucca Mountain support reopening the mountain to accept nuclear waste from the country's nuclear power plants.
Beside the argument that reopening Yucca will high paying jobs, Nevada already accepts low grade nuclear material, the mountain is safe even in powerful earthquakes, it will not affect tourism and even if something would go wrong, the radioactive would not harm Las Vegas, especially the water supply because Las Vegas gets most of their water from Lake Mead..  I understand the critics complaint about using trucks to bring the material over the roads, but I think flying the nuclear waste into Yucca would solve that problem.  After all, we fly nuclear bombs in B-52's over the U.S. and the world everyday and have done so for years without any problems.
So, hopefully, the GOP will find a way to get this bill into law and some money is restored to reopen Yucca Mountain.