House lawmakers to visit Yucca Mountain

[TexasTowelie]

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this month plan to visit Yucca Mountain, the location where most members of the panel want to build a national nuclear waste repository.

Details of the July 14 visit were still being finalized, according to the committee spokesman.

The visit comes after the House approved legislation in May to restart efforts to build the project, which had been kept dormant by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who retired at the end of his term in 2016.

The overwhelming House vote, 340-to-72, followed a similarly lopsided 49-to-4 vote by the panel last year.

Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, has led the charge to jumpstart the Yucca project. He is chairman of the committee’s Environment Subcommittee.

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[Freethinker65]

1. Just have Trump declare nuclear waste is no longer a hazard, problem solved!

[ROB-ROX]

2. CLOSED - EARTH QUAKE FAULT

1997 An unknown fault could cause FLOODING from ground water after an earth quake.......https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/06/970629235257.htm

Nevada ranks fourth in the nation for current seismic activity.[75] Earthquake databases (the Council of the National Seismic System Composite Catalog and the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network) provide current and historical earthquake information. Analysis of the available "Top Earthquake States". Earthquake Hazards Program. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-03-27.e data in 1996 indicates that, since 1976, there have been 621 seismic events of magnitude greater than 2.5 within a 50-mile (80 km) radius of Yucca Mountain.[75] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository

This is an ACCIDENT waiting to happen. Many times this project was STOPPED by smart people. Many times this project was STARTED by CRAZY GREEDY people........