Fight Over Yucca Mountain May Be Ending. By Steve Vogel, WashPost, March 4, 2009. "More than two decades after Yucca Mountain in Nevada was selected to be the national nuclear waste repository, the controversial proposal may finally be put to rest by the Obama administration. In keeping with a pledge President Obama made during the campaign, the budget released last week cuts off almost all funding for creating a permanent burial site for a large portion of the nation's radioactive nuclear waste at the site in the Nevada desert. Congress selected the location in 1987 and reaffirmed the choice in 2002. About $7.7 billion has been sunk into the project since its inception. 'Yucca Mountain is not an option, and the budget clearly reflects that,' Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy, said yesterday. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), a staunch opponent of the Yucca project, called the Obama action 'our most significant victory to date in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland.'"
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