Excellent questions that bear repeating -
RE: And where will this nuclear waste be stored? Yucca Mountain (no, thanks to Harry Reid).
Will it be re-processed? (no, thanks to Jimmy Carter)
Are we obligated to store it (yes, thanks to some treaty we signed somewhere along the way)
American rate payers (that’s everyone who pays an electric, or gas, bill have paid for the Yucca Mountain facility and we are not allowed to use it, leaving tons of nuclear waste stored in the open air in unsecured facilities, which I shall not mention.
The State of Nevada happily took the money we all paid and the jobs to build Yucca Mountain and then shut down access, leaving our mining machinery to rot at the bottom of a deep hole and the American people vulnerable to whatever dangers may ensue.
It’s a disgrace and the American people should be up in arms about it. Let’s hear the candidates defend those decisions!
PING!!
Confirmed that THE FIRST shipment of Highly Enriched Uranium Weapons grade nuclear waste (700 Kg) has shipped from Scotland’s Wick Airport to the US.
Has the US media informed us about this? Only saw this in UK news (as expected)
Does everyone know this 18 month duration nuke waste transfer deal the UK recently made with the US?
Flying 800 kg of weapons grade uranium waste to the US - What could go wrong?...
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