Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Letter to the editor:

Reid can make Yucca help Nevada

Amber Phillips’ story “What the GOP’s big win means for Yucca” (Nov. 10) mentioned the possibility of restarting the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project now that Harry Reid will no longer be able to block it.

Phillips indicated that last month the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its report declaring Yucca storage was safe.

If Sen. Reid really wanted to help Nevadans, he could help ensure that most of the hundreds of millions of dollars a year the nuclear waste owners pay to store the waste goes to Nevada, not to the federal government.

This would be a huge win for the state in addition to the jobs created to construct and operate the facility.

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