YUCCA FACTS

I think Nevada political strategist Ryan Erwin has it just right with regard to Yucca Mountain as an issue in this year’s presidential campaign. Here’s what he is quoted as saying in this morning’s Reno Gazette-Journal: “When you ask (Nevada voters) to list what’s your important issue in making a decision on who to vote for, rarely is (Yucca Mountain) in the top 10, and never is it in the top five. Nevadans will base their decision on the economy, education, health care, jobs, gas prices, issues that affect them on a daily basis.”

On the eve of a presidential campaign swing through Nevada, Republican Sen. John McCain took a new tack on nuclear waste storage. Here’s what he said about Yucca Mountain in a speech in Denver yesterday…

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Johah Goldberg is editor-at-large for the reliably conservative National Review magazine. And in his latest column, he makes a compelling case for siting the nation’s nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada…

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The highly regarded Heritage Foundation think-tank in Washington, DC, has published the following background report on what they believe is the continued and ongoing need for Yucca Mountain to serve as the nation’s nuclear repository…

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For years Nevadans have heard one argument after another in opposition to Yucca Mountain as the site of the nation’s nuclear waste repository. In a column appearing recently in a Greenville, SC, newspaper, Susan Wood and J. Malvyn McKibben counter, rather convincingly, many of the more popular arguments. This side of the story is something most Nevadans aren’t aware of. Take a look…

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