Romney, GOP don’t see eye to eye on Yucca Mountain

The Hill’s Bob Cusack has a piece that explores policy differences between presumptive GOP White House nominee Mitt Romney and Capitol Hill Republicans.

Nuclear waste policy is among the areas where the two sides don’t see eye to eye. From the story:

Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and other GOP legislators have been outspoken in their support of storing the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Obama, however, have thwarted the initiative.

Romney’s position is closer to Reid and Obama’s than congressional Republicans'. At an October debate in Nevada, Romney said, “If Nevada says, ‘Look, we don’t want it,' then let other states make bids and say, ‘Hey, look, we will take, here is a geological site that we have evaluated, here is the compensation we want for taking it.’ ”