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...from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca Mountain project] is dead...
...they make good on the threat? Federal bureaucrats doubt it. "It doesn't matter what Harry Reid says," says Jerry King, the project manager of the Energy Department's Yucca Mountain feasibility study. "We are going ahead full speed." By the end of this year, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham will probably recommend to President Bush that nuclear waste be buried at the repository. Bush's energy plan calls for construction of new nuclear power plants (the technology now supplies about 20% of the nation's electricity), but that won't happen unless the industry finds a place to store...
With polls showing as many as 80% of Nevadans opposed to the project, however, bargaining would be political suicide. Before he makes any deal to take nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Reid says, he'll be "on top of the Capitol doing a full body dive." That's a performance the nuclear industry would pay admission...
...With reporting by D. Brian Burghart/Yucca Mountain...
...hike up Red Creek Road, a nine-mile zigzag up the side of Red Table Mountain in Colorado's White River National Forest, is to experience what yoga classes aspire to visualize. You wind through canopies of blue spruce trees to emerge in soft meadows of swaying wildflowers. A gurgling stream escorts the trail, and silvery sagebrush perfumes...