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Obama on Yucca Mountain

We already knew from the Democratic debate in Nevada that Barack Obama had no use for Yucca Mountain, but despite this, and John McCain’s support of the brown mound, McCain and Obama are within a couple points of each other. Now, Obama is trying to close the deal, using Yucca Mountain as the wedge. Well...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
McCain Proposes Alternative to Yucca Mountain

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has just completed delivering a major foreign policy speech on Nuclear Security at the University of Denver. (The full transcript is available here .) I found this quote especially interesting, I would seek to establish an international repository for spent nuclear fuel that could...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008
What About South Carolina?

S.C. Politics Today poses an interesting question: The chance juxtaposition of the Nevada and South Carolina primaries creates a Yucca problem for presidential candidates. In Nevada, the Democrats have been competing with each other to claim they are the most opposed to sending nuclear waste to the proposed...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-18-2008
Press Weighs In on Democrats and Yucca Mountain

That Democratic Presidential debate on Tuesday night in Nevada keeps kicking up some dust. Here's USA Today : Yucca Mountain thus becomes the latest evidence of why it's so destructive to give a few early-voting states so much clout in the presidential selection process. Already this year, candidates...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-18-2008
John McCain on Nuclear Energy and Yucca Mountain

Senator John McCain is on the campaign trail in New Hampshire talking about energy and the environment : A key way to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, he said, would be to increase the use of nuclear power. When asked after the forum how he proposed to dispose of high level nuclear waste, McCain...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-05-2007
Yucca Mountain and Presidential Politics

Betsy Newmark is taking a look at the effect that moving Nevada up on the presidential primary calendar is having on policymaking and Yucca Mountain, and she doesn't like what she sees: Policy-making is about tough choices. If the choices were easy, they'd already have been made. But our system...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-13-2007
Presidential Politics and Yucca Mountain

The rundown on where every major candidate stands is at 2008 Central.net .

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2007

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