Posted on 08/09/2004 7:13:49 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
YUCCA MOUNTAIN UPDATE
Scientists and the U.S. Court of Appeals reject plan, but Bush Administration says: We're confident in our science and we're moving forward." (Washington Post, 7/10/04)
George Bush Is Making Yucca Mountain the Nation's Nuclear Dumping Ground
FACT: 77,000 tons of radioactive waste will be dumped at Yucca Mountain over the next 24 years. That's one shipment every four hours, 365 days a year, for the next 24 years.
FACT: A study by the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects estimates as many as 129 accidents as a result of the shipping of nuclear waste. Transportation routes put millions of families in harm's way. (Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects 12/00)
FACT: George Bush has the wrong plan for Yucca Mountain. The plan is not scientifically sound. Republicans and Democrats in Nevada oppose the Administration, but Bush is moving forward anyway.
Recent Yucca Timelins
2000: February 10: The U.S. Senate approves legislation to speed up storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Senator Kerry votes NAY-opposing the Yucca Mountain project.
April 25 President Clinton vetoes S.1287, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2000, halting the storage of highly radioactive waste at Yucca.
2001: President George Bush's EPA announces proposed radiation standards for Yucca Mountain. The State of Nevada files suit against the EPA saying the standards are not adequate.
2002: February 15: President Bush approves Energy Secretary Abraham's recommendation of Yucca Mountain as a suitable site, despite the absence of "sound science" verifying the health protection of Nevadans.
April 8: Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn vetoes the Congressional action.
July 9: The decision to designate Yucca Mountain as a nuclear repository is sent back to Congress. S.J.Res.34 passes in the Senate despite a NAY vote by Senator Kerry.
July 23: President Bush signs the joint resolution into law, officially designating Yucca Mountain as the nation's Nuclear Waste Depository site.
2004: A federal appeals court deems the current plan inadequate for protecting the public against radiation releases. The Bush Administration responds: "We're moving forward."
Then theres the usual, contribute $ appeal and a call to action.
I said years ago that this issue would cost Bush the state of Nevada. People here are still angry about it. Republican friends are still insistant they would vote for Mickey Mouse before they'd vote for Bush again.
SAVE YUCCA MOUNTAIN!!! DUMP THE NUCULAR SH*T IN BOSTON HARBOR!
What does Kerry propose we do with this nuclear waste? Give to to "Al Sadr" who he called "a legitimate voice"?
I assume every resident in Las Vegas received this folder. CFR has been a joke. These groups are far worse than soft money ever was. They're paying for a massive ad campaign here in Nevada. Time will tell as to the results of Yucca Mountain.
Kerry never says what he'll do...just that he voted NAY. LOL
As a Nevadan, frankly we don't care what you do with it. It's not our problem...or it wasn't. We got no benefit from it...why should we be endangered? I'm still angry about Bush's betrayal as well.
Vote for Kerry. He'll come to the same Yucca Mountain conclusion after the election.
Yucca Mountain is on a trans-San Andreas Fault line. It isn't safe.
My biggest complaint with all the environment types is that they NEVER offer a solution, only opposition. Putting nuke waste deep underground sealed up for the next 10,000 years is smart, but because everyone is opposed to this type of solution, it is currently sitting around in metal drums scattered all around the county at the various nuke power plants....how smart is that?
**Ping**
Your part of the US.
No it isn't. We didn't generate it. We received no energy benefit from it. Why should it be "our problem?" We're a sovereign state...or we were until the Feds decided to play bully and force it on us.
I say put the nuclear waste in Berkeley.
Exactly. Nevadans have paid the price for nuclear bomb experiments in death and high rates of cancer. It's someone else's turn to experience the joy the Federal government foists on us.
Earthquakes
An underground repository at Yucca Mountain would be very resistant to any damage from an earthquake. Several factors can be given as evidence.
Yucca Mountain does not rest on a fault line. Most damage in earthquakes occurs in areas directly above the fault line.
In the past 15 years, the closest earthquake was 8 miles away. This quake had a magnitude of 5.6, which is not very destructive.
Geologists calculate that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 or greater has not occurred in the past 50,000 years.
The damaging effects of a quake tend to decrease with underground depth. The Yucca mountain repository will be 1000 ft. beneath the surface.
http://www.engin.umich.edu/class/ners211/project2002/pro/suitability.html
Hard to figger why Bus doesn't select a state that NEVER goes repub in national elections like Mass.
As a side note, does anyone know which movie was filmed near the Nevada Test Site and many of the cast and crew died of cancer in very high numbers?
I'm all in favor of dumping the stuff in the ocean, yet some have problem with that.
Why don't we stuff in Harry Reids pockets? I'm sure he wouldn't notice.
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