The BRC evidently had no knowledge that the local community of Nye County in which Yucca Mountain is located wanted the project as did the six other neighboring counties totally an area bigger than each of the 25 smallest states. What they are really requiring is that a whole state, its government and its federal Senators and Representatives for the entire 100 years of development want a repository. Good luck with that. The BRC was nothing but payola by Obama to Reid to delay Yucca.

Contrary to the editorial and comments, the Commissioners came forth in defense of NRC workers who expect an open, safety conscious work environment which Jaczko evidently is not providing. His attacks on staff and women have reached levels that in any nuclear company would result in his removal by the NRC, yet the Sun blames it only on the mysterious anti-Jaczko forces in the nuclear industry. Perhaps other industries put up with management that shuts down communications from its staff, but the NRC expects that its licensees and itself have an open door, freedom of communication and everyone treated respectfully requirement. It makes one wonder just what the staff of the LV Sun have to put up with that they would defend such a poor manager as Jaczko.

Hmmm. More lies from the Sun. Yucca Mountain was in the top 3 of all sites considered. The country could not afford to investigate all 3, so yes Yucca was chosen, but then again it is in a desert 100 miles from any city next door to 1000 nuclear explosions. Seems reasonable, but yes it "screwed" Nevada.

So instead, let Nevada go on its own, repudiate any protection from nuclear weapons or nuclear powered Naval ships, pay for the differential in electric rates between coal/wind/solar and much cheaper nuclear power that allows visitors to Las Vegas, etc etc etc.

Additional, as to "states rights", Yucca Mountain is on federal land, so exactly how are states rights being infringed?

Finally, even the BRC stated that LOCAL support is required, not statewide. The six counties around and including Yucca Mountain are in favor. These counties are bigger than 25 of the states. Sure, a city over 100 miles away objects, but if this is the standard then the law should be changed to note this.

The LV Sun continues to promote illegal and unConstitutional actions by the President of the United States, as well as political payola to a US Senator. It is disheartening to see such sellout of American values for local self-interest.

Senator Reid has blown $15 billion of the American taxpayer's money for pure political gain and in violation of the NWPA as already decided by the NRC ASLB last year.

Nevadans owe the rest of the country this money as well as about $500 million per year for the next 100 years as envisioned by Senator Reid.

Please start paying up. You wouldn't want to be known as deadbeats now would you?

So Dean Heller was Nye County's representative and never voted for Yucca Mountain even though Nye County wanted it.

Just who are these guys representing? Certainly Berkley does not represent the 6 counties that want the work the repository would bring. And which Senator is representing these counties' desires? It appears that only the wealthy LV Sun owners have representation in Nevada, and not the common working man.

Once again the LV Sun is delusional if they believe what they write.

The DC Court ruled that since the 3 years allowed for the NRC to make a decision on the license application had not expired, it was premature. But the judges also noted that the petitioners wrongly went for Obama when it is Jaczko who must make a decision, and is already tardy in doing so. The 3 years expired on June 8 since it is illogical to allow unlimited time for the NRC to decide whether to docket an application, thus the three years started when the DOE submitted the LA.

Expect lawsuits now against Jaczko to allow the tie vote to be recorded, which will uphold the license application and deny the withdrawal.

As noted by the court, Obama must follow whatever the NRC rules and he can not stop the process.

Game over.

Since when does common sense trump a federal law?

@staralioflundnv

Huh? No low radioactive waste has been stored at Yucca Mountain. That would violate the NWPA. The DOE has to follow NRC rules at Yucca Mountain. This guarantees that Yucca Mountain would be safe contrary to Reid, etc. Only stupid morons would believe Reid and other anti-Yucca politicians who distort the truth for their own re-election. Pathetic.

Further, you worry about truckers hauling low level waste when you should be worrying about train companies hauling tankers of chlorine that run loose for over 25 miles through Las Vegas that could have killed 250000 people in 1/2 hour two years ago. You obviously have no idea what industrial hazards travel through Las Vegas every day with little supervision vs the massive oversight that shipments to Yucca would have had. Again, MORONS!!!!

Finally, it is a known fact that Nellis AFB has nuclear weapons. If one exploded, then the valley would be gone. Why is there no public outcry against these weapons that could end the Las Vegas Valley, yet the Las Vegas Sun and Reid go on and on about Yucca Mountain waste that is like 1 billionth the potential to harm anyone? Again, MORONS!

How will America be great in the future when the vast majority of politicians and liberal arts newspeople are uneducated about scientific issues and relative risks? Again, MORONS!

@mred - we also all remember Reid's 1998 reelection ads showing a bulldozer pushing magenta and yellow drums into a ditch like that is how the waste would be stored at Yucca Mountain. And you wonder why most Nevadans polled say no? What if the polling question was: Your political leaders have lied to you for their own interests. The NRC says that Yucca Mountain is safe. The project will bring $2 billion per year for the next 25 years to Nevada - are you for or against? The polling answer would be entirely different.

As to all of the other commenters against Yucca Mountain's safety, go read the 9000 page License Application and then honestly say it is unsafe.

Finally, the whole point is that the federal law says Yucca Mountain. Reid, Obama, Chu and Jaczko are all breaking this law and hope to get away with it. This is not how America works. You don't like a law, change it. To ignore your Constitutional oaths to obey federal laws is what is bothering most of us. It just goes to show how corrupt Nevada and Chicago politicians are. Reid won't always be in power, and neither will Obama. The political and legal paybacks might take a decade to result, but all of these people will pay a price eventually - either jail or historical evaluations that negate any good these people did for their illegal, unethical, and unConstitutional actions on the NWPA, and Yucca Mountain will open by 2025.

BTW, it should be noted that Nye County wants Yucca Mountain. Nye County is bigger in area than 9 other whole states. What more could the country or the Blue Ribbon Commission want? The local community DOES want the repository. The local community does NOT include Las Vegas or Searchlight. This is not about Las Vegas or Nevada or the re-election of Reid, it is about what the local people in Nye County wants. If Senator Reid really represented all Nevadans instead of just the editors of the Las Vegas Sun, Yucca Mountain would have already opened.