Yucca Mountain Nuke site now on hold

Message posted by gary on June 10, 2001 at 11:50:58 PST:

Looks like the change in power in the Senate will effectively delay the Yucca Mountain project.
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Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), the incoming majority leader, vowed last week while attending a fundraiser for Reid in Las Vegas that the Yucca Mountain project was "dead" as long as the Democrats retained control of the Senate. Although political observers say that it would be difficult to block the project indefinitely, Reid, now the chairman of a key appropriations subcommittee, and the Democrats could probably slow its construction by holding down its budget.
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