(Not that Nevada should have any say so in what gets stashed away in their mountains...:sarcasm:)
http://ag.state.nv.us/yucca/yucca.htm I googled Catherine Cortez Masto and found the above link to her and her state's position regarding the Yucca Mountain project. The things one can learn through Google! I frankly knew nothing regarding this project, reading this convinced me that the state of Nevada has damn good reasons for being against the project. Below are 4 of the 5 reasons from that link:
"Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is dedicated to continuing the fight against the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The state’s official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons:
GEOLOGY and LOCATION: There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site. These issues include hydrology, inadequacy of the proposed waste package, repository design and volcanism. The Yucca site is seismically and volcanically active, porous and incapable of geologically containing the waste. Yucca's aquifer drains to the Amargosa Valley, one of Nevada's most productive agricultural regions, is adjacent to a busy and growing Nellis Air Force Base, and is only 90 miles from our largest metropolitan area, Las Vegas.
LIMITED SPACE: Yucca isn’t big enough to store all of the nation’s nuclear waste. More than 46,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste are already stored at more than 77 reactor sites across the country. That number increases by more than 2,000 tons each year. Yucca’s statutory design capacity is only 77,000 metric tons. By the time Yucca would be filled to capacity in 2036, there will still be at least the same amount of spent fuel still stored at the reaction sites, even if no new plants are built.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Contrary to DOE arguments, building the Yucca Mountain repository will not make America safer. Instead, it will give terrorists more attractive and vulnerable targets. The DOE expects more than 100,000 shipments of spent fuel to be transported to Yucca Mountain – thus creating 100,000 mobile targets. Furthermore, the DOE plans to store high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel above ground at the Yucca site for at least 100 years. This creates the largest new spent fuel storage target in the world."
(Only slightly more at link)