Ignoring support for waste storage at Yucca, NY Sun said McCain's position on international nuclear waste storage "could win him votes in Nevada"

Published: May 29, 2008, 4:50 pm

In a May 28 New York Sun article, staff reporter Eli Lake wrote that in a May 27 speech on nuclear safety, Sen. John McCain said "he favored the creation of an international repository where all spent nuclear fuel could eventually be sent." Lake added, "Taking a position that could win him votes in Nevada, he said: 'It is even possible that such an international center could make it unnecessary to open the proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.' " However, while writing that McCain's position "could win him votes in Nevada," Lake did not note that McCain has previously supported storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. As recently as May 6, McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin asserted to Reuters in an interview that "[t]he political opposition to the Yucca Mountain storage facility is harmful to the U.S. interest and the facility should be completed, opened and utilized." By contrast to Lake's New York Sun report,

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