An in-the-know energy issues expert sends the following missive:
It’s the biggest shopping day of the year.
We hear from a well-placed source that the Obama administration will use the holiday Friday news blackout to announce that it is definitively pulling the plug on the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste repository.
The move has been in the cards since the ’08 election, and an internal memo leaked from DOE [Department of Energy] on November 7 has already drawn Congressional ire by indicating the Administration would not only withdraw the Yucca Mountain license application from the NRC [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] earlier than anticipated but also terminate all work on maintaining Yucca Mountain as a policy option.
I’ve called the White House press office and am awaiting a call from them either confirming or denying this will happen. But it certainly fits in with the White House’s modus operandi.
