Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

FLASHPOINT:

About that Yucca Mountain promise …

So now that he is about to become president, can — or will — Barack Obama keep his promise to kill Yucca Mountain? You may recall that Obama, a recipient of nuclear industry money in Illinois, has pledged to end the dump project. “The next administration could decide that they’re going to withdraw the license application,” Yucca project boss Ward Sproat said during remarks on spent fuel management at a forum Thursday in Washington, D.C., an industry publication reported. “I’m not a lawyer ... but all I’m saying is that it would basically cast the whole process and national strategy laid out by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act into a lot of confusion and uncertainty.” So now, Mr. President-elect, it’s time to make good.

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