The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a resolution strongly opposing any attempts by Congress to make Yucca Mountain the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump.
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The federal agency in charge of U.S. nuclear weapons sites on Friday awarded a $5 billion contract to manage and operate the Nevada National Security Site for up to 10 years to Mission Support and Test Services LLC, a division of Honeywell.
A resolution stating the Nevada Legislature’s opposition to the construction of a high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain won unanimous approval Friday from a Senate panel.
Nevadans have had to endure years of nuclear and other testing that has left regions of our state uninhabitable for generations to come.
State senators are moving closer to formally voicing objections to storing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain.
The budgets for the state agencies charged with fighting the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste dump were approved Saturday by the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees.
An enormous amount of study led to Yucca Mountain being selected as the most logical site for safe storage.
Republicans and Democrats both claimed victory on a bipartisan $1.1 trillion comprehensive spending bill that includes items of specific interest to Nevada and Las Vegas.
So how do you and I force the federal government to pay a serious annual tax free compensation to each Nevada citizen?
Gov. Brian Sandoval made it clear to the Trump administration that Nevada will fight any attempts to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and will proceed with retail sales of recreational marijuana.