Goodbye, Harry Reid; Hello, Yucca Mountain?

... well, goodbye as Majority Leader in the Senate, anyway.  The house of cards that Reid built - predicated upon supposed safety issues with Yucca Mountain - has fallen.

•Jaczko, Reid's hand-picked slave servant, is long gone from the NRC Chairmanship and has been clearly recognized for what he is -- solidly anti-nuclear.

•The NRC Staff has released Volume 3 of the SER for Yucca Mountain, saying that it's safe to use as a long term geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel.

•Macfarlane, chosen to succeed Jaczko and who is on the record as being against Yucca Mountain, has vacated her position -- likely because there's no scientific support to say it's unsafe, and because there's no political support for that position to be held.

•Reid, the anti-Yucca Majority Leader, cannot hold that job any more after the mid-term election results last night.

NEI Nuclear Notes has just published a great, short piece introducing us to this new world that might have just a bit less anti-nuclear rhetoric and a bit less decision making without knowledge.  You can find that new piece by clicking here.  Alex Flint does a great job of beginning to crack open the door on what the new world may look like - at least for the next two years.

Note his mention of Barbara Boxer.

Folks who are pro-nuclear have good reason to be happy this morning. 

11:00 AM Eastern 11/5/2014
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