New chairman sets sight on Yucca hearings

The Yucca Mountain repository project and other radioactive-waste issues are a priority for early hearings by the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, said Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the subpanel. "What do we do with high-level nuclear waste? That problem has not gone away. ... We have to have an answer for this," said Shimkus, who wants members of the subcommittee to inspect the Yucca site in Nevada. Las Vegas Review-Journal/The Political Eye blog