Rep. Newhouse Tours Yucca Mtn Nuclear Repository – Moves to Revive Project

In the wake of the Obama Administration abruptly terminating the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository,  a number of Congressional legislators are stepping up the process to get it re-opened, and refunded. Rep. Dan Newhouse and others toured the facility recently, and an updated report is expected on efforts to reopen it.

Acting in defiance of Congress, as he often does,  Obama and his Administration terminated funding to further the development of the nuclear waste repository that Congress had reaffirmed in several dozen votes.   The site was first chosen in the 1980's to be the eventual home of treated nuclear waste and by-products from various nuclear reactor sites across the country - including Hanford.

Hanford remains the most toxic and largest environmental cleanup project on Earth, and Yucca Mountain was to be the final resting place for the waste treated by the VIT Plant at Hanford.  Numerous lower-level wastes were set to go there as well.

With the mysterious and abrupt termination of Yucca by the Obama Administrion, the U.S. now has no place to safely send and store nuclear waste, and it continues to be stored and monitored at Hanford, and other sites around the country.

Rep. Newhouse renewed his commitment with other legislators, including Republicans and Democrats, to pressure the White House to work with them to re-start the repository. He visited the site with other legislators on April 9th of this year.