NO

There is no evidence that the federal government offered Nevada billions of dollars to host the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

The project, which was never completed, did for a time entail payments to Nye County, which generated $11.25 million in 2007 for the property value of the project and received up to $2.7 million annually in oversight money.

The project was scrapped in 2010, with sunk costs at the time totalling an estimated $38 billion. Lawmakers have proposed offering incentives including new infrastructure, schools, water rights and money to convince Nevada to let the project resume.

If completed, repository costs would total an estimated $97 billion and the site could store 77,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel.

A 2017 poll showed 33% of likely voters in Nevada favored storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain and 58% opposed.