Paul Broun actually said...

I think what has taken Yucca Mountain off the table in terms of a long-term solution for a repository for our nuclear waste is the science.

Let us also not forget that Yucca Mountain is designated by law as the Nation's spent fuel repository.

This Administration has long claimed that it makes its decisions based on science.

The DOE, the ERDA and the AEC spent many years attempting to site a geological repository.