Senator Reid,
I am one of the, soon to be, displaced workers at the Yucca Mountain Project. I am also a constituent to which you have the audacity to espouse your intent to help. Help gain new employment by your insulting statement to go to your site and see the link for the Unemployment office and DERT. I seriously doubt ANY of the people working to retrain displaced workers have half the knowledge required to train geologists, engineers, scientists, and even our administrative assistants. They are going to be retrained to do what? Work in at one of the major businesses that own Nevada , flip burgers, or perform housekeeping (all at minimum wage)? That is if any positions are even available! I would love to see you in that position! Many will lose their homes and cars; choose between paying their bills or feeding their families; file for bankruptcy. It is truly an embarrassment to have to apply for Unemployment, but I will have to do so thanks to your political, misleading campaign to destroy the REPOSITORY (not dump as you so lovingly call it).

You, sir, are not doing ANY favors for the state of Nevada, the United States of America or the world by continuing your vendetta against the Yucca Repository. Leaving high level waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SNL) lying about our country, open to easy terrorist attacks, is a thousand times more dangerous and terrifying than having a repository that can store the waste until such time that science can economically find a means to recycle and reuse it. When, at that time, it can be brought out of the repository and offer us inexpensive energy that can be sold on the open market and benefit the state of Nevada. I am more scared by the chlorine and other dangerous chemicals that are transported across our country on a daily basis than I am by the HLW and SNL. On the other hand, it is most helpful to reassign those funds to your wind farm or whatever pipe dream you may have for using them.

I am disgusted by the lies you continue to promote to the media and fear mongering you use to gain votes from the people of Nevada. You have chosen to make your path one of a “servant” to the people of Nevada (I use the term loosely) and NOT that of a scientist. Let the NRC review and decide upon the validity, safety and correctness of the Licensing Agreement (LA). But, of course, you are whittling away at their budget also.

Harry Reid, you are no friend to the state of Nevada and I will be the first in line to start the campaign against your reelection!