The New GOP Congress Should Open-Up Yucca Mountain and Promote the Use of Nuclear Energy

Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 December 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

After four years of battle with opponents of safe, economical nuclear energy -basically same dummies closing down our coal industry (Obama, Reid, et. al.)- the large federal nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada was recently deemed 'safe' by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission... 

so why not get going with that, then?

Nuclear energy is simply wonderful in my view, and only real green kooks like the German left are walking away from it. Not even the tsunami disaster at Fukushima, Japan has scared them away from utilizing it... Tokyo knows the 1964, single-walled reactors were outdated and risky, and unlike anything you'd find in France or the US these days.

Modern nuclear plants are very safe, and GE in fact generates substantial income from international sales of it's advanced reactors. The French and Russians are the primary competitors, and what a great export business it is for the United States as well. Shouldn't we be utilizing -and further developing- our impressive nuclear technology here at home? Why should anybody else buy American if we don't?

America is expansive, works hard, and plays hard... the country is also sprawling and designed-for and built-upon cheap energy. 
WE NEED trucks, SUVs, and other large vehicles, not insane 50 mpg diktats from a clueless White House.

And we need Hemi Challengers too... this is America, dammit.

Can you imagine expanded tracking, oil shale, construction of the Keystone XL pipeline... in addition to more inexpensive, clean atomic-generated electricity?

And it wouldn't be surprising if this all lead to an economic boom, driven by cheap, nearly unlimited energy... even perhaps a general resurgence in manufacturing/export competitiveness.

Maybe this is something Boehner and Musty Mitch have got the gumption to get done... make yourselves useful for once, will ya-

[taxcontrol]

And put in place a program to develop Thorium based power plants.

[cotton1706]

Nuclear waste has to be stored SOMEWHERE, until we can figure out what to do with it, recycle it, etc.

And the safest place would be in a dry place. And inside a mountain in the middle of the desert seems to me to be a good idea.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Follow the example of the French nuclear program. Reprocess the wastes which are 95 percent of the nuclear fuel.

[MrB]

Hear hear!

[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

Sorry for the sloppy editing- my spell check is too smart for it’s own good too

[MrB]

Blame Amy Carter and her feckless dad.

[Reaganite Republican]

The facility itself is impressive... was expensive... and is not being utilized, how silly

[Reaganite Republican]

No doubt

[dhs12345]

Exactly. And call the Liberals and environmentalists bluff.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I thought this was initiated under President Ford.

[ExTexasRedhead]

New GOP Congress first priority is to find their gonads, don’t ya know?

[bigbob]

Amen! Start being smart about energy instead of acting like helpless victims.

[thackney]

Some work is started

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr7176/

http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1405/ML14050A083.pdf

[MrB]

The ban on reprocessing was a Carter decision,
based on his daughter’s fears of nuclear proliferation.

(Reprocessing extracts plutonium which can be used for bombs)

[Vaquero]

Go to the moon. Mine the regolith for HE3 and lets get clean and safe fusion on line. But use fission to get there (do a search for Freeman Dyson’s project Orion). Let’s use the knowledge we have to make a better human race. Not hide from it like the so called progressives would have us do.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thanks.
Things are a little hazy from the Jimmah Cahtah era.

[MrB]

At least Carter didn’t cost us an ENTIRE DECADE of prosperity like the current occupant has.

[SMARTY]

Maybe I’m really uninformed... but can’t it be blasted into the farthest reaches of outer space?

Have I been watching too much sci fi?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The problem with building a nuclear power plant is that the NRC gets involved and orders expensive design changes in the middle of construction.