Nuclear Waste. This joint resolution (House Joint Resolution 87) would override Nevada’s veto of President Bush’s plan to use Yucca Mountain as a repository for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Nuclear energy is a key to energy independence; the Yucca Mountain repository for spent nuclear fuel is the key to increased utilization of nuclear energy.
The House passed the resolution on May 8, 2002 by a vote of 306 to 117 (Roll Call 133). We have assigned pluses to the yeas.
