New Harry Reid Ad: Sharron Angle Wants to Nuke Us!

Heh. Okay, not really. . .but kinda.  It used to be that Yucca Mountain--the facility in Nevada intended to be a nuclear waste repository--was a pretty popular thing to be against in the state, regardless of party.  After all, Nevada doesn't produce any nuclear waste, and all of that stuff would have to be trucked in. Much of it through the Las Vegas valley.  With all the worries about "soft targets" for terrorists, many people worried about those trucks, and the facility itself.  But recently, Republicans seem to have lined up behind the facility, with Sharron Angle taking the lead.  I'd say this ad is more likely to sway undecideds to Harry's side than many of his other ones. Though exactly who could still be undecided is anyone's guess.

Nuclear Water: You're Drinking it! (in New Jersey)

We're all screwed, right? Bring on the Yucca Mountain, I can take it!

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Tainted nuke plant water reaches major NJ aquifer

Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday. . .

Read more at: The Political Carnival

Hat-tip to Lizz Winstead via Twitter for the tip.

Nevada Fighting Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump

Image from Atomic Archive

George Bush is still trying to dump the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada's back yard, even though our state doesn't produce any. But thankfully, Nevada is fighting back. So there, Mr. Bush!

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Nevada files challenge against federal nuclear dump license

Nevada officials say they've filed the first challenge against a Bush administration bid to win Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval for a national nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas.

State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto calls the massive 8,646-page license request submitted Tuesday for the Yucca Mountain project "legally deficient" and incomplete. . .

Read more at: MSNBC

Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link.

Nevada: America's Nuclear Toilet (Yucca Mountain)

Image from Atomic Archive

Here it comes again. There have been a lot of efforts to stop Yucca Mountain--a nuclear waste repository a little over an hour's drive out of Las Vegas. One of the big reasons there has been so much opposition is that 1) It's too close to a large metropolitan city, and 2) Nevada produces no nuclear waste itself.

But the government owns most of the land in Nevada, so they think the site is just peachy. Great. Thanks, President Bush! Oh, well, maybe I can get a tan without even going outside. . .

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Bush administration files nuclear dump application

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday he's confident the government's license application to build a nuclear waste dump in Nevada will "stand up to any challenge anywhere." [snip]

Responding to the filing, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons reiterated his promise to fight the waste dump which he said "threatens the life and safety of the people of Nevada. . ."

I hold out little hope, as the governor is a boob.

Read more at: Raw Story