Now I'm nauseous and will have to put off eating for at least an hour...and I was really hungry.
Posted on 08/20/2010 4:17:21 PM PDT by epithermal
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to bypass Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository should give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a boost in his bid for a fifth term. The action is not doing another endangered Democrat, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, any favors.
And the same could be said for Democratic lawmakers in South Carolina who have distanced themselves from the administration’s decision. Democratic Reps. John Spratt and Jim Clyburn have been particularly critical of shelving Yucca in recent months.
Washington and South Carolina are plaintiffs in a lawsuit designed to keep Yucca Mountain as an option for stockpiling the nation’s nuclear waste. Both states served critical roles in the development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and now both are dealing with the challenge of storing large amounts of high-level nuclear waste for decades to come.
In Washington state, Republican rival Dino Rossi is questioning whether Murray has done enough to challenge Reid and President Barack Obama over Yucca Mountain.
“She’s No. 4 in leadership. It’s not like she has no power,” Rossi said. “She should be able to convince these folks that this is important.”
Rossi is hoping to tap into the disdain in central Washington for the Yucca Mountain decision, which many view as steeped in politics rather than science.
Now I'm nauseous and will have to put off eating for at least an hour...and I was really hungry.
Talked with a Nevada native last month about this.
She says they are mad at Harry over losing this.
It was set up with a fund that would give free medical to Nev. senior citizens plus free college tuition for the young ones.
She said they were looking forward to receiving something like Alaska gives it’s citizens from oil.
There’s also a matter new jobs for the state with this project. With unemployment at 14-15%, they are looking for new jobs wherever they can find them.
She said they already have huge amounts of nuclear waste in the state now and after Harry and Obama ruined this deal, they have the waste without getting reimbursed for it.
If the R’s got on this bandwagon, they just might make some voters think in the opposite direction on the subject.
Say WA? Evergreen State ping Nevada is huge....it also has some of the most God forsaken land I’ve ever lived on. I have always thought this was the perfect place for the waste.
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