From the Pahrump Valley Times: The Nov. 6 election in which President Obama was re-elected and U.S.
Sen. Harry Reid remains Senate majority leader means Yucca Mountain will
probably remain dead, at least politically.
But like the radioactive material it would store, the project continues to have a half-life of its own in the courts.
Nye
County is one of the plaintiffs awaiting a decision by the U.S. Court
of Appeals on whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S.
Department of Energy should be required to complete the license
application.
Two other lawsuits have been filed over the project,
consultant Cash Jaszczak said. The National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners is suing to cease payment of the .10 cent paid
into the nuclear waste trust fund by ratepayers. Another suit by
anti-nuclear groups asks for an environmental study of storing the
material for many years while the program is in limbo.
A tireless
advocate for the Yucca Mountain project who made numerous trips to
Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, Commissioner Gary Hollis, will leave
office after he lost a bid for his third term to Commissioner-elect
Frank Carbone. But the county commission is expected to continue
presenting a united front in favor of the project.
A new nuclear
liaison will have to be appointed in January when a new commission
chairman is elected. Hollis said it usually goes to the senior
commissioner, which would be Commissioner Butch Borasky, though
Commissioner Dan Schinhofen has been a strong proponent of Yucca
Mountain since he was elected in 2010.
“I’ll still be the voice
piece for it, just because I’m not commissioner doesn’t mean I’m not
going to be working every day on Yucca Mountain. I’ll be working behind
the scenes with legislators,” Hollis said.
Hollis hopes the court
will rule on the completion of the license application and the safety
evaluation report, which he said will show Yucca Mountain can be
operated safely. http://pvtimes.com/news/yucca-mountain-still-alive-consultants-predict/
The liberals and others who oppose Yucca have not provided any intelligent excuses why Yucca Mountain and the storage of nuclear waste in years.
Yuccca is a good job provider, is safe and it is needed. Further, U.S. taxpayers and electric users have contributed billions of dollars to the Yucca project, only to have it thrown down the drain by Crybaby/Senile/Coward Harry Reid and his buddy, President Obama.
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