Nevada’s senators introduced a bill Tuesday to make sure Yucca Mountain is used for anything but nuclear waste.
The legislation from Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto comes after top Republican lawmakers recently raised the possibility of reviving the contested waste site.
The “Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2024’’ would first add a provision in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to ban any current or future consideration of a permanent nuclear waste repository at the Yucca Mountain site.
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It would then direct the Office of Management and Budget to submit to Congress a study on the economic viability and job-creating benefits of “alternative uses” for the site.
