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Opinion: Harry Reid - Sharron Angle debate: Nuclear power and Yucca Mountain

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Reid doesn’t bite on Angle’s provocations. She tells him to ‘man up’ on Social Security, then she says, ‘Well, there you go again,’ echoing Ronald Reagan’s exasperation with Jimmy Carter. He keeps a straight face.

Fox: The question is on Yucca Mountain and Angle’s statement that Reid has ‘demonized’ the nuclear industry. Did Reid miss a golden opportunity to create jobs with Yucca Mountain?

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Reid: Yucca Mountain is not good for the country and it is really bad for Nevada. People said we couldn’t kill it. It’s dead. We need to use it for something else. My opponent says we should use it for a nuclear reactor. There isn’t enough water here to do that. I am not against nuclear power; I was just totally opposed to bringing all the garbage from it to the state of Nevada.

Angle: ‘I have always voted against making Nevada the nuclear waste dump of the nation.... But we need to quit demonizing the nuclear energy industry.’

She touts nuclear breeder submarines and other technological advances, and says we should not be depending on foreign oil. We should be developing our own resources.

Reid, she says, is guilty of an ‘extreme environmental outlook.’

Both of them, we are relieved to report, know how to pronounce ‘nuclear.’

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