Letter: Seek benefits for inevitable Yucca

Thursday, July 17, 2003 | 9:20 a.m.

The House committee that oversees Yucca Mountain just gave the project a record $765 million for next year's budget. Are our elected officials just so lost in their campaign fighting the project that they can't see that Yucca Mountain is ultimately inevitable?

The state is fighting this in the Washington court system. For goodness sake, that is where the decision was made to recommend Yucca Mountain as a repository in the first place.

It is better to bury high-level nuclear waste at one site in the remote Nevada desert than keeping it at the more than 130 sites where it's at right now.

Both the Senate and House spoke loud and clear last year -- they want to see this important national policy seen through one way or the other. Let's let the process play itself out and allow the independent experts at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission make the decision on the suitability of Yucca as the waste's burial site.

A repository at Yucca Mountain is in our future whether we like it or not. The question is who is looking out for our health and safety and looking at a significant benefits package for all Nevadans.

GUY CORRADO