As Rep Dina Titus aptly called it, this is the “Screw Nevada Bill”. Why should my state be the repository for your nuclear waste? This is especially in light of the fact that there are other energy options available (such as wind, solar or less preferred natural gas). Why aren’t the states using nuclear energy responsible for their own nuclear waste???? I’ve heard Yucca mountain has been engineered to hold the waste for 1000 years; too bad the half life for this waste is 10s of 1000s of years. If you don’t want it, why do you insist Nevada get stuck with it????

Why do the Reps from other states have the right or the ability to say what Nevada is going to have done to it. That Rep from Nevada has said repeatedly that this is NOT what Nevada wants, so listen up, Representatives. Besides that moving all that nuclear waste across the country will put lots of people, towns, states and highways in danger. This is ridiculous.

Shouldn’t this be decided by the State of Nevada first?

Ask Nevada.

Our government is using the Yucca Mountain as a scapegoat for dumping nuclear waste. Why not have the nuclear sites be responsible for their own waste? Is it because it is the best solution that our government refuses to see it? Or have the lobbyists for these nuclear sites placed huge monetary down payments with our representatives to pass on the nuclear waste responsibility?

We’ve seen too much damage from nuclear waste sites. The damage can be seen in soil, in water, and thereby in the people and ecosystems living nearby. We need a new solution to our nuclear waste problem. Dumping more waste in communities is not the answer.

Las Vegas is the country’s most visited tourist destination, with visitors coming from all over the world. The optics on storing the nation’s nuclear waste within such close proximity to such a large populace of people, let alone over 42 million visitors annually, are awful. A permanent storage solution should be centrally located, and should not be in immediate vicinity of millions of Americans. If the argument is that Yucca Mountain is “already existing”, then build a new one more strategically and safely located. Had Congress started doing this all those years ago when this initially became a debate, the project would have been done by now, and we would already be storing the waste. New plants could be built and we could make further progress on reducing energy carbon emissions.

Before we hastily pass this bill, we must understand and acknowledge the expertise and commitment that Finland and Sweden have on creating publicly approved, sustainable, and clean nuclear waste management sites. Our government must work with those countries' experts and the IAEA to create a clean future. We must protect our environment and our people, and why not follow those that have already succeeded, we must find better solutions and stronger possibilities. Our society is just not ready to speed up this program, but to improve the program before it continues.

This bill is another step in the long process of forcing Nevada to host the nation’s nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain repository which is wrong as communities hosting nuclear waste should have the right to give their consent. Congress shouldn’t be passing judgment in favor or in opposition to the Yucca Mountain repository while the licensing process is still underway.

This cannot go into effect without the intended host community’s consent.

I believe each state should be responsible for their own nuclear waste

What does Nevada say?

Unless Nevada and it's residents have guess that this is okay then Benedict Trump and his regime have no right to make this decision on their behalf.