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Go tell it on the mountain | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

Will the push to open Yucca Mountain shift Nevada toward Obama?
– Grist  by Kate Sheppard  01 Oct 2008 The Bush administration is pushing full speed ahead with plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — and that could affect the presidential race in the battleground state of Nevada, where John McCain and Barack Obama are in a dead heat……………………………Most Nevadans probably aren’t concerned about the particulars of radiation standards set for tens of thousands of years from now — they are just generally opposed to the idea of 77,700 tons of waste being shipped to a site 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The state has petitioned the NRC to reject the federal government’s license application………………………Anti-Yucca sentiment, brought front of mind by the Bush administration’s recent moves to push the project forward, would seem to benefit Obama; he’s opposed to using Yucca as a waste site while McCain is a longtime supporter of the idea.

Go tell it on the mountain | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

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October 4, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics