NV Demands "Yucca Mountain Johnny" Step Down

NV Demands "Yucca Mountain Johnny" Step Down



In the Nevada state legislature, where lawmakers never have been happy about the state hosting the Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste repository, they really object to the Department of Energy's "Yucca Mountain Johnny," host of the "Yucca Mountain Youth Zone" Web site.

The Nevada House of Representatives voted last week to demand that the Department of Energy pull the Internet plug on Johnny, charging that his Web site presents a "pro-nuclear" viewpoint, without noting any of the dangers involved with the long-term storage of radioactive nuclear waste in general, and the Yucca Mountain site in particular.

"The Department of Energy should not be in the business of propaganda and trying to persuade schoolchildren that storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain is OK," stated state Rep. Shelley Berkley in a Las Vegas Review-Journal report. "Yucca Mountain Johnny is like Joe Camel was to cigarettes."

The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository site is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, and is currently scheduled to begin receiving shipments of nuclear waste on March 31, 2017.

"All of the nuclear waste is very radioactive. It gives off invisible energy rays that can make people sick and even die. Nuclear waste will stay radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years." -- Yucca Mountain Johnny

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