The NWPA does not give the President any power to withdraw the application. If a President did that, it is likely that many states would go to the Supreme Court for a ruling on the Constitutionality of such an action. Remember, there are over 35 states that have nuclear waste and their nuclear powered citizens have paid into the Waste Fund to pay for Yucca Mountain. The Democrats and the President would be playing with fire to use a Presidential action to stop Yucca Mountain. If the site really is as bad as Reid et al postulate, then the NRC will not license it. What are they afraid of? Or are they calling the NRC corrupt?

Congress "succumbed"??? Congress' majority voted to make Yucca Mountain the nation's nuclear waste repository.

As to any Presidential power, Congress passed the law in 1982 on how to proceed with licensing a repository. The DOE and the NRC are merely following this law that CONGRESS has made. If the Las Vegas Sun is suggesting that Obama should ignore a national law and the will of Congress, then what other laws will Obama and the Democrats propose to disregard?

1 in 125? What a joke! Denver gets 350 mrem/yr more than Las Vegas, so this means with a limit of 100 mrem/yr in comparison that 1/3 of Denver would die from cancer each year???? Obviously, the analysis by Institute for Energy and Environmental Research is faulty!!.
But don't let reality or facts get in the way of a good story.

Besides the very well put cost impacts by jfnance32, solar power on the scale being talked about would dramatically impact the desert ecosystem. I doubt that the EPA is going to let hundreds if not thousands of square miles of beautiful desert be covered with solar plants without years of court hearings and interventions.
Two other items relative to solar photovoltaic panels - they don't work efficiently in temperatures over 125F and the dust that blows around Nevada will have to be continually cleaned off by some method so power production is not affected.
Perhaps the best way to free market solar power is to let each consumer mark on their power bill what source they want - and when there is none of that type their power will be turned off. How many people will pay 30 cents/kwhr for an unreliable power source - no one except those who have millions of dollars.

Drilling will take less than 3 years if no impediments are put in place to do so. Also, US drilling could add 15% to the US supply. In case of oil supply disruptions, this would be critical to the economy of the US. Stop listening to idiot liberal leftists and realize that your standard of living and job depend upon US supply of oil.