THE BILL CALLED YUCCA MOUNTAIN NUCLEAR REPOSITORY IN NEVADA HAS BEEN LEGISLATED NOT ONCE NOT TWICE BUT THREE TIMES PASSED BY THE SENATE AND FOR OVER 10 YEARS NOW HAS BEEN IN LIMBO BECAUSE OF THE ASS-HOLE SENATOR OF NEVADA HARRY REID (D-NV) (AS RIGHTFULLY CALLED BY THE SENATOR OF OK) HAS DEEMED IT NOT A LAW AND HAS BEEN DEFUNDING THE TRANSPORT OF WASTE THEREOF–WHILST NEVADA ACCEPTED BILLIONS OF CONSTRUCTION MONIES TO BUILD THIS SITE–THE SAME SITE MIND YOU THAT HAS BEEN USED IN WW2 FOR NUCLEAR TESTING–THE JACKASS SENATOR OF NEVADA HARRY REID (D-NV) HAS BEEN THE ROAD BLOCK IN CHEAPER ENERGY THROUGH NUCLEAR AND IN FACT HAS HIJACKED ANOTHER JOB CREATION THAT WILL NOT COST ANYMORE TAX DOLLARS SINCE UTILITY COMPANIES HAVE TAXED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO STORE THE NUCLEAR WASTE FOR YEARS

In blasting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to use the “nuclear option” to change the way the Senate handles nominees, his Nevada colleague, Republican Dean Heller, raised the possibility that it could lead to opening a controversial nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

Heller went so far as to call the legislative maneuvering ”a scary day for Nevada.”

“The Nevada delegation has prevented Yucca Mountain from moving forward, a policy that is already the law of the land. We have been able to accomplish this using every arrow in our quiver. When you are from a small state, you have to rely on every tool in your toolbox to protect yourself,” Heller said in a statement.

Heller was raising the possibility that while Thursday’s action applies only to executive and judicial nominations except for those to the Supreme Court, a future Senate may use the same method to end the 60-vote requirement to limit debate on bills and amendments.

Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman was quick to issue a statement in response to Heller’s contention.

“It is disingenuous and frankly not true for Senator Heller to suggest a project that Harry Reid has already defunded and ended would miraculously rise from the dead,” Orthman said. “To show how clueless this assertion is, the efforts today to end gridlock in the Senate have nothing to do with legislation like Yucca, and only apply to judicial and executive branch nominations.”

Indeed, Reid did succeed in defunding the Yucca project when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. He has also moved to put in place regulators at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that are favorable to his views. The project has long been a point of contention in Congress. Senators from states with nuclear reactors have looked to Yucca as a place to store highly radioactive waste, but Nevadans and other opponents have argued transporting the waste would be dangerous and that the proposed site 90 miles from Las Vegas is not a safe location.

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