interesting daily highlight. the newsletter is an insiders look at upcoming authors and festivals. the american history tv newsletter gives you the upcoming programming exploring our nation's past. sign-up today. >> now, a preview of some of the action expected on the house floor this week. by jeremyjoined dillon, who is energy and environmental reporter with cq roll call. the house set to take up legislation on the yucca mountain nuclear waste storage site in the coming week. give us a short and condensed version of this issue that goes back many, many years, if not decades. what is the situation in the yucca mountains? jeremy: this is a big bill's tackling nuclear waste. in the 1980's, it was established that yucca mountain would be the place with the nation's commercial nuclear waste would be. that was going along behind

schedule for the next couple of years. when the obama administration came into power, they decided to cancel the project because of harsh, local opposition to it. that has kind of stalled it since about 2010. with the new trump administration and the republicans in power in the house and senate, people are seeing this as the renaissance for yucca mountain. it is finally coming back. that is what this bill would do. it presents a new strategy to get this going again and doing the stuff that needs to be done so the license application currently pending before the nuclear regulation committee can go forward. it also does some stuff that gets it to be bipartisan. it authorizes an interim storage program which was what the obama administration had recommended

doing in place of yucca mountain. this is a two-step approach they -- that gets everyone on board and does a conference of nuclear waste strategy for the country, where it has been lacking for the past eight years or so. >> the bill comes out of the energy and commerce committee, sponsored by john shimkus of illinois, passing that with an overwhelming vote. you detailed some of the items in the bill. it comes to the house floor for support. will it likely be as strong in many? jeremy: there are 81,000 metric tons of this commercial and nuclear waste. you don't want that in your state. that is part of the problem nevada has hosting this nuclear waste repository. the nuclear waste has long half-life, meaning it is going to state radioactive for thousands and thousands of years, probably longer than current recorded history. that is a problem for a lot of people. they want to get it out of their states. it moved out of the energy and commerce committee on a 49-4 vote.

pretty unheard of, especially since this issue has divided the house and senate for so long. to see such a strong vote coming out of committee will carry over. there is going to be this nevada opposition getting loud in the next week. host: let me show our viewers some of the opposition. this is from a congresswoman, her words, not ours. next week, representative shimkus will br ing his screw nevada 2.0 build to the floor. this legislation will rubberstamp the yucca mountain to turn nevada into the nation's nuke dump will be bad policy. i will continue to fight it every step of the way. why in the past has nevada delegation been so strong in resisting these types of measures, and if it passes the

house, where does it stand in the u.s. senate? jeremy: that is the big problem right now. i kind of mentioned it in the first question. ins project got canceled 2010 from the obama administration because there is such a strong local opposition to it. former something that majority leader and democratic leader in the senate harry reid made. it is actually something that carries over to bipartisanship in nevada. you will see next week representative jacky rosen, who is currently running against senator dean heller in the nevada race, she will come out just as hard because this is an issue that unites nevadans. you can see that all the way up to the governor, who is a republican who is against it. it is not just party lines.

it'll pass the house, but it will run into opposition in the senate. senators are there waiting and willing to put a filibuster up there. the senate is looking at doing some of their own nuclear waste management. senator lamar alexander and senator feinstein have been talking recently with the appropriation cycle getting up the energy water bill which touches on these issues. it has been a priority for them to get something going. that may take the turn of something interim storage space than storage at yucca mountain. there is some hope that the senate could do something. this current bill is likely going to have to go uphill to get past the senate. >> we have been speaking with jeremy dillon, who is energy and environmental reporter with cq roll call. you can follow them online and on twitter. thank you so much for the update. jeremy: thanks for having me.

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author robert kurson. he is author of "rocket man." then, theresa may is taking questions from members of the british house of commons. later, a discussion on exit and the future of u.k.'s foreign policy. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," robert kurson discusses his book "rocket men." ♪ brian: robert kurson, author of "rocket men." when did you know you had a good story? robert: i was walking through the museum of science and industry in chicago, showing some friends the u-boat on display. they have the u 505, a perfect match for the boat i wrote about