Posted on 04/24/2009 12:44:31 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
They try ‘use it or lose it’ approach to stalled project in Nevada.
BY JAMES ROSEN
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, backed by 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, introduced legislation Thursday to provide “rebates” from a $30 billion fund to build the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository in Nevada.
Because South Carolina has more nuclear reactors than most states do, its residents have contributed a disproportionately large share — more than $1.2 billion — to the Nuclear Waste Trust Fund for developing the Yucca repository.
Graham criticized President Barack Obama for his decision to mothball the Yucca project, which the federal government has been developing for two decades over intense opposition from Nevada politicians, environmentalists and other groups.
“No one should be required to pay for an empty hole in the Nevada desert,” Graham said. “The decision by the Obama administration to close Yucca Mountain was ill advised and leaves our nation without a disposal plan for spent nuclear fuel or Cold War waste.”
His fellow Republican from South Carolina, Sen. Jim DeMint, is a co-sponsor.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
What about an empty suit in the political swamp of Washington?
DeMint/Graham ping!
Gotta give Graham and Mac props on this....
We need to move forward with progressive energies, including nuclear. I am tired of the Left using every excuse possible to stop energy advancement, especially nuclear, and killing the ideas of isolated deterioration sites and potential recycling methods.
Put up or shut up.
Right. We shouldn’t be forced to be paying for those empty suits either.
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