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The New GOP Congress Should Open-Up Yucca Mountain and Promote the Use of Nuclear Energy
Reaganite Republican ^
| 09 December 2014
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 12/09/2014 7:17:50 AM PST by 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 Tokyo knows the 1964, single-walled reactors were outdated and risky, and unlike anything you'd find in France or the US these days.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-
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: electricity; energy; nuclear; yucca
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To: Reaganite Republican
And put in place a program to develop Thorium based power plants.
To: Reaganite Republican
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.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:23:06 AM PST
by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: taxcontrol
Follow the example of the French nuclear program. Reprocess the wastes which are 95 percent of the nuclear fuel.
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:24:20 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...
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Sorry for the sloppy editing- my spell check is too smart for it’s own good too
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Blame Amy Carter and her feckless dad.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:24:40 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: cotton1706
The facility itself is impressive... was expensive... and is not being utilized, how silly
To: MrB
To: Reaganite Republican
Exactly. And call the Liberals and environmentalists bluff.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:25:50 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: MrB
I thought this was initiated under President Ford.
To: Reaganite Republican
New GOP Congress first priority is to find their gonads, don’t ya know?
To: taxcontrol
Amen! Start being smart about energy instead of acting like helpless victims.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:28:57 AM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: taxcontrol
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:29:14 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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)
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:31:23 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Reaganite Republican
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.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:32:14 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: MrB
Thanks.
Things are a little hazy from the Jimmah Cahtah era.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
At least Carter didn’t cost us an ENTIRE DECADE of prosperity like the current occupant has.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:35:32 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: cotton1706
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?
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:36:14 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: Reaganite Republican
The problem with building a nuclear power plant is that the NRC gets involved and orders expensive design changes in the middle of construction.
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posted on
12/09/2014 7:36:57 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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