Don't let politics drive a nuclear-waste decision

Editorial: Yucca should not be taken off the table
The government should not eliminate Nevada's Yucca Mountain site from consideration without even finding out if it passes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's standards, as doing so would indicate that politics trumped policy, according to this editorial. Even the Energy Department, which is seeking to terminate the project, admitted that there was nothing wrong with the application and that the site posed no threat. The Washington Post (7/19)