Sen. Reid's solution: Store spent nuke fuel rods in 131 places instead of 1

The Patriot Room ^ | August 23, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

[clyde_m]

"I am proud that after over two decades of fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, the project is finally being terminated." See Reid's Senate page.

Obama's budget: "This proposal implements the Administration's decision to terminate the Yucca Mountain program while developing disposal alternative."

What are those alternatives? Currently, the 77,000 tons of high level nuclear waste that were supposed to go to Yucca Mountain are held in temporary surface storage facilities located at 131 sites in 39 states. Now that's spreading the wealth, eh?

The NRC also has a list of 55 "Locations of Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations." Here's a map of those locations:

[gwilhelm56]

Senator Reid... I am not a Resident of Nevada, but, I am sure that Residents of Nevada would AGREE WITH ME.. when I tell YOU ..JUST WHERE YOU CAN PUT YOUR SPENT FUEL RODS..

you recycle them like the french do .. after a few recyclings... spent rods have slightly more radioactivity than normal background Radiation.

DUH!

[Nuc1]

Reid you MORON, recycle the fuel. Like we were doing before Carter stopped it. Truly our political slave masters are working to destroy the Republic.

[backhoe]

Recycle...

Yep- old post:

...end Jimmy Carter's idiotic ban on recycling nuclear waste, and reprocess the stuff rather than fighting over where to bury it. Europe has done this for decades.-- what to do with spent nuclear fuel? Answer here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468321/posts?page=50#50

[Secret Agent Man]

I say we store them in 537 places. Each members’ of congress’ backyards, the White House and the VPs house.

[TigersEye]

Sen. Reid is proud that he is costing the taxpayers more money and leaving us with a much bigger security risk. Way to go, mush-brain.

[FastCoyote]

http://www.yuccamountainexpose.com

[caveat emptor]

A better solution. Thorium reactors.

Half a century ago, a different kind of nuclear reactor was invented, one that burns Thorium - an inexhaustible supply of fuel, and much cheaper than the enriched-uranium fuel used by current reactors. It can even use the nuclear waste from other reactors as fuel! The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, or LFTR for short, operates at low pressures, so it could never explode like the reactor at Chernobyl, and its liquid-fuel design makes it physical impossible to overheat, like the reactor at Three Mile Island.

[PhilDragoo]

Hey, Harry Reid, use the interplanetary solution and store the fuel rods in Uranus.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!

Amen!

bump!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Along with Reid there are at least 535 locations where the rods could be stored if the schmucks would bend over.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Dingy has been bad for business for the boys in Nevada. He will have a tough run in 2010. He’s TOAST and a disgrace for the state of Nevada!

[libstripper]

you recycle them like the french do .. after a few recyclings... spent rods have slightly more radioactivity than normal background Radiation.

Those spent rods are a resource, not a menace. Reid would make sense if he proposed recycling, but he doesn't. Instead, he's nothing but a destructive Watermelon Luddite.

[devolve]