WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL SUPPORTS YUCCA MOUNTAIN

The Washington Post yesterday published at editorial that supports continuing the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel geologic repository project, and places much of the blame for the country’s current nuclear waste stalemate on Congress, specifically Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "Lawmakers helped create the expensive and risky mess that currently serves as nuclear waste policy in America," the Post wrote. "The status quo is the result not of any grand design but of a ­quarter-century of political fighting—and Congress is largely responsible for cleaning it up." The "not-in-my-back-yard-ism of Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and other politicians has all but killed the waste-disposal project at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain," the paper wrote. "Instead, waste is piling up in the back yards of dozens of communities across the United States, at sites that weren’t designed for long-term storage."