Nevada Democrats urge Trump to keep Yucca Mountain mothballed [View all]

WASHINGTON — Nevada Democrats seized Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s wobble on Yucca Mountain, urging him to follow through with his campaign-season equivocation and keep the nuclear repository in Nevada in a mothballed state.

Trump was campaigning for Republican Sen. Dean Heller in Elko last week when he told KRNV News 4 that as president he understood the state’s opposition to the project.

“I think you should do things where people want them to happen,” Trump told the Reno TV station. “So I would be very inclined to be against it and we will be looking at it very seriously over the next few weeks. And I agree with the people of Nevada.”

The entire Nevada congressional delegation is opposed to reviving the licensing process the Department of Energy was going through to receive a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to build the facility.

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