In 2000, Bush won Nevada's four electoral votes by a mere four percentage points.* In 2000, Bush won Nevada's four electoral votes by a mere four percentage points. John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. is trying to take the state's
votes away from him by playing on Nevada's fears about the burial
of nuclear waste beneath Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain, mountain in the SW Nevada desert about 100 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is the proposed site of a Dept. of Energy (DOE) repository for up to 77,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (including commercial and defense spent fuel and high-level . The burial plans, he says, are
"a symbol of the recklessness and the arrogance" of the Bush
administration. It so happens that Kerry supported the 1987 law that led
scientists to conclude that Yucca Mountain is the safest place in
America to store the waste. John Edwards  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. favored the site until just hours before landing on the Democrats' national ticket. True, the White House recently suffered a setback when a court said that safety guarantees stretching 10,000 years into the future aren't good enough. But that doesn't change the fact that Yucca is by far the best depository The place where a deposit is placed and kept, e.g., a bank, savings and loan institution, credit union, or trust company. A place where something is deposited or stored as for safekeeping or convenience, e.g., a safety deposit box. in the country, and Kerry knows it. |
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