How about sending this to a handful of judges. Give them a taste of consequences their action/non-reaction produce, first hand. Just a taste of what will be forthcoming due to their inability to uphold the law of the land.
With any material remaining, send to the democrats in congress; still some remaining, throw a few pubbies names in the hat.
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage is not "The END of Nevada as We Know It!" A little perspective.
Just a few subsistence craters from the 825 previous underground nuclear tests in Nevada. So far, these have not spawned any Gigantic Teenage Mutant Ninja Gophers running rampant through the Las Vegas Casino Districts.
These are the sites of nuclear weapons underground EXPLOSIONS, not the storage of sub-critical nuclear waste materials.
This is where the nuclear waste is stored now.
So we built a nuke waste facility that last I heard was in the $240 billion range, that needs an additional $29 billion to possibly become operational. But we still aren’t sure we can ever use it, and yet there is no money for a wall. Is that about right?
‘Burn’ as much as possible of this useful stuff in a suitable nuclear reactor. French do that and have little waste left at end. Some of the proposed ‘new’ reactor designs make this easier. Let the left try to protest against recycling!,
This is a national problem and Nevada should not get a veto just because the location of the storage site is in Nevada.
Nevada should not be seeking a veto because the arguments against the site are irrational and defy the science and the facts about storing the material there.
One of the last legal attempts to block the use of Yucca had one judge suggesting that the minimum 1,000 year expected safe life time for using that facility was “not long enough to be considered safe” (I’m paraphrasing it not quoting).
I wrote at the time that the president’s response should have been - fine, we’ll go ahead and do it against your judgement and the executive branch and the courts can argue about for that 1,000 years, and maybe by then the scientists will come up with some other solution, but meanwhile we’ll use the solution we have.
Yep, another govt solution, looking for a problem, looking for a REAL solution.
Re-process, re-use. Question is: What’s the reduction of such?
Can the by-products be used elsewhere? Maybe smaller/local plants, not needing the more purified product? How many levels ‘deep’ can we go before we take a barrel and reduce down to a bucket of ‘bad’ stuffs?
I suspect the answer is, YES...*IF* govt got out of the way of itself.