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WASHINGTON — Faced with a White House veto threat, Congress this week is restoring a part of Yucca Mountain funding that had been cut from a major defense bill.
When Barack Obama made his first presidential campaign visit to Las Vegas 19 months ago, I got into it with his press person because there was no access for the local media and while Obama generally opposed Yucca Mountain, there was no answer to my follow-up question: “Then what should the country do with that nasty nuclear waste?”
WASHINGTON — No matter what happens with the embattled director of Nevada’s Nuclear Projects Agency, the state will not give up the fight against Yucca Mountain, Nevada’s senators vowed Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Staff members from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss their review of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository at a public meeting next week in Nye County, the agency said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Conservative political activist Chuck Muth on Monday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the state Agency for Nuclear Projects following revelations last week that the head of the office gave himself and other staffers unauthorized pay increases of up to 16 percent.
Polls conducted since the political conventions show Republican John McCain in the lead in the presidential race in Nevada.
WASHINGTON — Government analysts are undertaking a study to compare the costs of building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain against the costs of leaving the waste at power plants, where it is now stored.
Should Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency chief Bob Loux step down in the wake of questions about pay raises swirling around his long-held post, former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan said Thursday the state’s sights will remain on defeating federal plans to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.