Posted on 07/13/2019 2:31:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The earthquakes that rocked Nevada last week could also shake up the debate on Yucca Mountain.
Rep. Dina Titus pointed to the tremors as proof that the facility north of Las Vegas is not a good place to store nuclear waste.
“We’ve known there are fault lines in that area and that’s been part of our argument," she said, "but this very visibly proves the point. They try to argue that there are no showstoppers. You can accommodate anything, but I believe our argument when things are flying off shelves and the earth is cracking open is much more persuasive.”
Supporters of the Yucca Mountain project maintain that seismic activity in the area has been taken into consideration but Titus doubts that.
“It’s all, I believe, based more on politics than on policy and I just don’t trust the science that’s being done and supported by the industry that wants to build that facility,” she said.
The congresswoman also points to the recent train derailment in Elko County in June as a sign of the potential dangers of transporting nuclear waste to the facility.
Titus believes the whole process of selecting a site for high-level nuclear waste needs to be restarted. Originally, Congress was going to look at a repository for the East Coast and one for the West Coast.
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Rep. Dina Titus is a Demonicrat. Deminicrats lie like normal people breathe.
It will take a lot more than a Demonicrat seismic spinmeister to be convincing.
Yucca Flats is more than 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It is east of Death Valley and probably more than 250 miles or more from the epicenter of the recent earthquake.
Hidden away off Nellis AFB, it is a relatively inactive tectonic area.
She doesn’t believe the science but no doubt
believes in global warming...
Even if there were a massive earthquake that destroyed the facility the waste would simply be trapped inside much as the uranium ore was trapped in the ground for billions of years before we mined it.
The science regarding earthquakes is never settled and is always shaky.
Typical democrat bait and switch. Give us billions to build a repository for nuclear waste then shut down the project when its complete because its unsafe. Dingy Harry had no intention of allowing it to be completed, just a big government jobs program.
And Dirty Harry’s Legistlature Lead turned Reid’s political connections into the head job at the NRC, where he personally stopped economically succ awful new nuclear power plant construction.
Earthquakes Shake Up Debate.
Who the heck writes these headlines? Somebody trying to be clever????
Yeah, that always cracks me up.
Hope you are doing ok.
But what if a gopher burrows into the mountain and gets exposed to all that radiation? And then crawls out and dropping radioactive gopher pellets everywhere. THAT is why it is not safe!
Or maybe we will be dealing afterwards with a 200 foot tall gopher with various super powers.
We’ll sic Bill Murry on it.
She’s soooooo right. It’s CLEARLY much safer stored in the holding tanks of nuclear facilities just a mile or two away from residential areas.
Whew. Glad we got THAT cleared up. (That she’s an idiot, I mean.)
The complainers are know nothings. The safety questions about Yucca Mountain have been addressed and answered. Some idiots just don’t want to accept a possible 1,000 year life for the storage area as good enough.
I have said that a President should tell the courts we are going ahead with it anyway, and every President will come back to court for the next 1,000 years, until either the courts or someone else comes up with a better solution.
Continuing to store the nuclear waste as it is presently stored is much more potentially hazardous than Yucca Mountain. Yucca is a good enough solution and the best solution available compared to just doing nothing.
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