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Monday, Dec. 19, 2005 | 8:51 a.m.

If anyone thinks that the new effort by Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign to slow down Yucca Mountain will slow down the federal imperative, you are ignoring history. Just this week in California, federal regulators told a town hall meeting that they would not be affected by the proposal for on-site storage. The gathering occurred in San Luis Obispo, which had the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant nearby. According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune, officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured the locals that an above-ground storage facility was "not a tenable solution" in the long term. A former mayor who attended fretted about leakage from casks. Sound familiar?

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