YUCCA FACTS

From the June 20 editition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal…

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Let’s check in with the Nevada Department of Yucca Disinformation.

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The following guest column by Maria S. Dias appears in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal, further proof that not all of Nevada is adamantly opposed to hosting the nation’s nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain…

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Well-known polling outfit Mason-Dixon completed and released an exhaustive statewide survey of Nevada voters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week. In answer to the question, “What issue is most important to you when considering your presidential vote?” here are the results:

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According to a poll conducted earlier this month for the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, “58 percent of respondents said they wanted to fight the Yucca Mountain repository plans,” while a third said it was time to “let the project move forward.”

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The following was written by Bob McCracken - an author, former resident of Tonopah, Nevada, and currently under contract to Nye County to prepare an oral history of Rhyolite (part 2 will be added next week):

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“The United States Department of Energy submitted its license application for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 3,” writes Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto in a guest op/ed appearing in Sunday’s Nevada Appeal. “Nevada’s experts reviewed the application and quickly concluded that it is neither viable nor complete.”

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Last August, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid told his colleagues at a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing that “Everyone knows that the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is a dying beast,” challenging them to “take the focus away from this dead project.” As recently as last week, Reid was still performing a last rites ritual on Yucca, declaring at a press conference, “I think (Yucca Mountain) is on its death bed.”

To paraphrase the late, great Mark Twain, Harry Reid’s reports of Yucca’s death appear to be greatly exaggerated.

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