Weco:
What is the Obama Plan?
During a presentation House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gave to the City Club of Cleveland, he indicated the GOP would revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste plan, the Review-Journal reports.
Q: “The only repository for nuclear waste planned or conceived or developed in this country is Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and it is stopped dead in its tracks by Harry Reid. If the Republicans can take back Congress, what position would the party take on opening Yucca Mountain so our nuclear reactors have someplace to put their waste?”
Boehner: “Most Republicans have supported Yucca Mountain for the 20 years that I've been there and the American people would be shocked to know how much nuclear waste is laying just miles from their home. It's laying at every nuclear plant around the country and why? Because we can't get Yucca Mountain finished because it's not politically correct. We've invested tens of billions of dollars in a storage facility that's as safe as anything we're going to find."
Boehner reportedly went on to say that even if nuclear waste is not stored underground "then why wouldn't we as a country begin to reprocess much of this nuclear waste, where you can reduce the waste by about 90 percent."
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