let’s look at how many states back in the 1980s had been willing to take the highly radioactive fuel rods off the hands of nuclear energy plant operators: zero. Not a one particular. In particular not Nevada, which currently had paid a human toll as the website of atmospheric atomic bomb detonations. No one gave much believed to the radioactivity in our sky — “don’t worry” — and, boy, had been we snookered.
The truth that two junior congressmen from Nevada would be open to filling a nearby mountain with radiation — placing not only Las Vegas’ economy, but the lives of our youngsters, grandchildren and generations of future Nevadans at threat — is beautiful.
Our delegation in Washington can definitely bicker more than other difficulties, but on Yucca Mountain, Nevadans anticipate solidarity, not betrayal, due to the fact absolutely nothing can be allowed to jeopardize our safe future.
Congressmen’s willingness to money in on Yucca Mountain endangers Nevadans, Herald Recorder , 
March 29, 2015 Two of our congressmen, who are the least skilled in our Capitol Hill delegation, have much to learn when it comes to watching out for the security, welfare and financial safety of Nevadans.
Cresent Hardy and Mark Amodei, a pair of Republicans, say they’d want Nevada to money in on the opening of Yucca Mountain as the final resting place for highly radioactive nuclear
waste if professionals are convinced it would be safe. If the feds and the nuclear power market genuinely want handle of Yucca Mountain, at least they can throw some money our way — perhaps to help fund education or enhance our public infrastructure.
In other words, they’re prepared to place Nevadans in harm’s way if the income is correct. In harm’s way, mainly because no one can be sure that the web site will remain safely benign when filled with this nuclear material. Hardy and Amodei definitely have signaled to Washington and the out-of-state nuclear energy industry that they’re open to bringing lethal nuclear waste to within 90 miles of Las Vegas.
We do not even know where to commence in showing how outrageous their position is……..
It is not that difficult, basically, identifying all the flaws, terrible premises and unknown outcomes of filling Yucca Mountain with deadly radiation. Research of the mountain have identified it to be porous, susceptible to sweating corrosive moisture and vibrating with earthquakes.
And it is no surprise that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would nonetheless green-light the project it is the frontman for the nuclear power sector, which would really like practically nothing extra than to dump inside our mountain their radioactive leftovers from nuclear reactors out of state. We do not use nuclear energy, but the sector desires to stick us with its still-radioactive fuel rods. What’s wrong with this picture?
In addition, if Nevada currently has concluded that this misguided idea is unsafe, why would we even entertain an argument from somebody else that it is protected? It is not like we want to err on the side of threat.
To that point, let’s look at how many states back in the 1980s had been willing to take the highly radioactive fuel rods off the hands of nuclear energy plant operators: zero. Not a one particular. In particular not Nevada, which currently had paid a human toll as the website of atmospheric atomic bomb detonations. No one gave much believed to the radioactivity in our sky — “don’t worry” — and, boy, had been we snookered.
So when the federal government went searching for a place to bury 77,000 tons of radioactive fuel — stuff so risky that the government required a location to keep it protected for ten,000 years — Congress decided to volunteer Nevada for the job, and we have been too politically weak to stop it. With the passage of the politically expedient “Screw Nevada Bill,” Nevada’s nickname could possibly as properly have been changed to the Victim State.
The choice to target Yucca Mountain — in reality, an undistinguished volcanic ridge line — was misguided virtually from the get-go…….
[Senator Harry Reid] “When it comes to defending the well being and safety of Nevadans from a prospective environmental catastrophe, there is no advantage worth bargaining for. Nevada’s own professionals, the Nuclear Waste Project Office, have worked for years with scientists and technical experts to reveal that Yucca Mountain is a highly risky, half-baked proposal riddled with technical flaws that guarantee eventual failure.”……..
The truth that two junior congressmen from Nevada would be open to filling a nearby mountain with radiation — placing not only Las Vegas’ economy, but the lives of our youngsters, grandchildren and generations of future Nevadans at threat — is beautiful.
Our delegation in Washington can definitely bicker more than other difficulties, but on Yucca Mountain, Nevadans anticipate solidarity, not betrayal, due to the fact absolutely nothing can be allowed to jeopardize our safe future. http://www.heraldrecorder.com/breaking/congressmens-willingness-to-money-in-on-yucca-mountain-endangers-nevadans-h5402.html
