I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
Reid may have been a liberal, but the opposition to Yucca Mountain was all NIMBY, not political.
It wasn’t just Reid and it was all liberal stupidity. Because of that all the waste is less safely stored at the nuclear plants.I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
Reid may have been a liberal, but the opposition to Yucca Mountain was all NIMBY, not political.
It wasn’t just Reid and it was all liberal stupidity. Because of that all the waste is less safely stored at the nuclear plants.I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
Reid may have been a liberal, but the opposition to Yucca Mountain was all NIMBY, not political.
I think Mark is right. This was all about Nevadans not wanting it in their state. I don't think it was a left-right thing.
Not my memory of it at all. We argued about this on the old boards. I do not remember any of you libs arguing for opening it. Could be wrong of course.It wasn’t just Reid and it was all liberal stupidity. Because of that all the waste is less safely stored at the nuclear plants.I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
Reid may have been a liberal, but the opposition to Yucca Mountain was all NIMBY, not political.
I think Mark is right. This was all about Nevadans not wanting it in their state. I don't think it was a left-right thing.
Yucca Mountain is all about Obama campaign promise and Nevada electoral votes.
definitely political. It was an Obama campaign promise.
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. Upon taking office, his administration, specifically through the Department of Energy, moved to withdraw the license application and cut funding for the site, effectively halting the project.
Concur. We used to be on the same conservative Republican team.definitely political. It was an Obama campaign promise.
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During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to stop the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project in Nevada, calling it an unworkable solution and advocating for alternative, long-term, science-based disposal. Upon taking office, his administration, specifically through the Department of Energy, moved to withdraw the license application and cut funding for the site, effectively halting the project.
Wright is an amazingly astute pick for Energy Secy. Surprised he even took the job. He's from Denver and has written a lot of good stuff about energy. Nobody knows more about all the issues than him.
Yucca Mountain is all about Obama campaign promise and Nevada electoral votes.
Exactly. Not everything is ideology.
Exactly. Not everything is ideology.
"Ideology" is the better word for what I was getting at. Thank you.
"Liberal idiocy?"I’m all for this effort, and we also need to open Yucca mountain for waste storage - the opposition to that is liberal idiocy.
I don't really know anything about the fight, but the below concerns seem like valid considerations. Maybe you weigh them differently, but what about those concerns plays into liberal ideology or is unreasonable to worry about?
The Fight Against Yucca Mountain
The state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons:
GEOLOGY and LOCATION: There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site. These issues include hydrology, inadequacy of the proposed waste package, repository design and volcanism. The Yucca site is seismically and volcanically active, porous and incapable of geologically containing the waste. Yucca's aquifer drains to the Amargosa Valley, one of Nevada's most productive agricultural regions, is adjacent to a busy and growing Nellis Air Force Base, and is only 90 miles from our largest metropolitan area, Las Vegas.
LIMITED SPACE: Yucca isn't big enough to store all of the nation's nuclear waste. More than 70,000 metric tons of high level nuclear waste and spent nuclear is stored in more than 77 reactor sites across the country. That number increases by more than 2,000 tons each year. Yucca's statutory design capacity is only 77,000 metric tons. By the time Yucca would be filled to capacity in 2036, there will still be at least the same amount of spent fuel still stored at the reaction sites, even if no new plants are built.
TRANSPORTATION: Transporting waste to Yucca Mountain puts the American public at risk. More than 123 million people live near the proposed truck and train routes which would be used to deliver waste to Yucca Mountain. Those routes travel through 703 counties in 44 states. An accident or attack along those routes could hurt or kill thousands of innocent people.
NATIONAL SECURITY: Contrary to DOE arguments, building the Yucca Mountain repository will not make America safer. Instead, it will give terrorists more attractive and vulnerable targets. The DOE expects more than 100,000 shipments of spent fuel to be transported to Yucca Mountain-thus creating 100,000 mobile targets. Furthermore, the DOE plans to store high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel above ground at the Yucca site for at least 100 years. This creates the largest new spent fuel storage target in the world.
Seems like something with reprocessing and reducing the waste would have been common by now and a much larger percentage of our power would be 'clean'. Still has nasty waste even so. But I've been disappointed with our lack of will to go nuclear the last 40 years. Let's power our electric cars with 'clean coal' I guess. 🙁 And a stiff breeze.
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