Flashpoint for Feb 24, 2006

Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 | 7:23 a.m.

I don't like writing about Yucca Mountain. So little has changed since the first Screw Nevada Bill in 1987. The rhetoric is stale, the politicians so reflexive, the issue almost boring. But one tactic has worked: A dump delayed is a dump denied. Or at least: A dump delayed is a dump delayed. Now, the administration, prodded by the nuclear industry, is once again trying to accelerate the erection of the dump by producing legislation that would expand the capacity of the facility. Ordinarily, I would say: So what? More of the same. But in the middle of an election year, where Republicans here have enough national baggage to carry, this new push may have resonance. Or will it be boring ... again?

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