Berkley calls on DOE to fire Yucca Mountain cartoon man

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- Joe Camel, and now Yucca Mountain Johnny?



Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., connected the icons on Thursday in calling on the Department of Energy to erase the square-jawed cartoon miner from its taxpayer-funded Web site for the planned nuclear waste repository.

Berkley charged that Johnny's job on the site's "youth zone" is to "convince kids in Nevada that nuclear waste is OK and that the state of Nevada is a safe place to store nuclear waste."

Text on Johnny's site states: "We must be responsible for our nuclear waste and put it in a place where it can never harm people or the environment."

Critics say Yucca Mountain is not that place.

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