Yucca Mountain

Sue Lowden has always been and remains opposed to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act – which calls for deep, geologic burial of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.  As a Nevada State Senator, Sue traveled to Washington, DC, in the 90s to testify before a congressional panel in opposition to this misguided policy.
Sue is a strong proponent of clean, reliable nuclear power and believes our country should implement  technologies that other countries are already using to help support their clean nuclear power industry.  Here in America, to provide clean and affordable energy, we must do the same – which requires dealing realistically with the waste issue.  Once the waste issue is resolved, we can provide construction of a new era of clean nuclear power facilities across America since our current nuclear plants are old and out-dated.  However, simply burying this substance in a mountain represents a decades-old policy that fails to envision new technologies, job opportunities, as well as economic and national security concerns.
Sue believes that if nuclear waste ends up being shipped to Nevada, we should ensure that Nevada can become the leader of a new, job-creating industry on reducing and ultimately, permanently eliminating the waste.  She believes our Nevada Test Site could become the next major economic development, job-creating, high-tech nuclear laboratory – not just for the US, but throughout the world.  Lawrence Livermore in California and Los Alamos in New Mexico are two of our nation’s leading national laboratories and many other states are competing for new, high-tech, job, career and industry-creating projects.
Properly planned, the next major nuclear laboratory can be constructed right here in Nevada – not just providing resources and jobs – but a host of new, permanent career opportunities for Nevadans and a leading research capability for our Nevada System of Higher Education.  Unfortunately, all we have now – after three decades of Harry Reid in Washington – is a multi-billion dollar hole in a mountain with no new industry and no new jobs for Nevadans, as well as a failed national energy policy that continues to fail our nation, our state and our energy consumers.  Harry Reid has failed Nevada in so many ways, and his head-in-the-sand approach to energy independence continues to hurt every resident and visitor to our state.

Sue Lowden has always been and remains opposed to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act – which calls for deep, geologic burial of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.  As a Nevada State Senator, Sue traveled to Washington, DC, in the 90s to testify before a congressional panel in opposition to this misguided policy.Yucca Mountain

Sue is a strong proponent of clean, reliable nuclear power and believes our country should implement  technologies that other countries are already using to help support their clean nuclear power industry.  Here in America, to provide clean and affordable energy, we must do the same – which requires dealing realistically with the waste issue.  Once the waste issue is resolved, we can provide construction of a new era of clean nuclear power facilities across America since our current nuclear plants are old and out-dated.  However, simply burying this substance in a mountain represents a decades-old policy that fails to envision new technologies, job opportunities, as well as economic and national security concerns.

Sue believes that if nuclear waste ends up being shipped to Nevada, we should ensure that Nevada can become the leader of a new, job-creating industry on reducing and ultimately, permanently eliminating the waste.  She believes our Nevada Test Site could become the next major economic development, job-creating, high-tech nuclear laboratory – not just for the US, but throughout the world.  Lawrence Livermore in California and Los Alamos in New Mexico are two of our nation’s leading national laboratories and many other states are competing for new, high-tech, job, career and industry-creating projects.

Properly planned, the next major nuclear laboratory can be constructed right here in Nevada – not just providing resources and jobs – but a host of new, permanent career opportunities for Nevadans and a leading research capability for our Nevada System of Higher Education.  Unfortunately, all we have now – after three decades of Harry Reid in Washington – is a multi-billion dollar hole in a mountain with no new industry and no new jobs for Nevadans, as well as a failed national energy policy that continues to fail our nation, our state and our energy consumers.  Harry Reid has failed Nevada in so many ways, and his head-in-the-sand approach to energy independence continues to hurt every resident and visitor to our state.