Yucca Site Seen Gaining in Opponent Reid’s 2016 Senate Departure
The Democrat's retirement may boost chances to revive the moribund Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
This undated image obtained 22 February, 2004 shows the entrance to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository located in Nye County, Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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The departure of Harry Reid after 2016 may boost chances to revive the moribund Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, a project the Senate minority leader has spent his career opposing.
Reid’s announcement Friday that he doesn’t plan to seek re-election as Nevada’s senator is “constructive for Yucca,” Christi Tezak, an analyst with ClearView Energy Partners, said in an e-mail.