Recently surfaced comments from a Republican Senate candidate in Nevada show he once supported storing nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain site, breaking with longtime bipartisan rejection of the proposal in the state.
Sam Brown, the front-runner in the GOP primary, made the comments at a 2022 campaign event in Henderson. The Los Angeles Times obtained and published those comments Tuesday. He now says he won’t rule out seeking its revival in the future.
Democrats seized on the news. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who is up for reelection to the seat and could face Brown in November, said via a spokeperson that Brown wants to “turn Nevada into the nation’s dumping ground for toxic waste.”
At the 2022 event, Brown called the failure to establish the repository an “incredible loss of revenue for our state.”
