Posted on 03/04/2009 11:00:21 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
What an idiotic headline. Obama is simply punting on this issue.
It is the WaPo’s headline. ‘Nuff said.
Store nuclear waste in in Bill Ayers house in Chicago. No one will notice.
All this does is kill off nuclear power. If France can do it why can’t we?
As it is, nuclear waste is stored in 200 terror friendly sites nationwide.
The time is coming when you turn on your light switch and get to use a flash-light.
Much of the “spent” fuel rods can be re-processed. The French are quite good at it. I thought we were licensing a French firm to build a reprocessing facility in Montana, but I could be mistaken.
Material that cannot be reprocessed should be dumped in the bottom of deep oceanic trenches were the tectonic process will return it to the bowels of the earth. I can imagine the greenies screaming about that, but it makes the most sense.
The safest place to store nuclear fuel until we figure out what to do with it is in the dryest place possible. That means the desert. And within a mountain within the desert is even better.
You have that right! This is nothing more then an attempt to kill off nuclear energy. I am looking into pulling my house off the grid, at least I will have power when everyone else will be freezing in the dark.
Reid didn’t get his payoff!
Generators, if you can get enough fuel with your ration card ...
How about “Portable Backyard Nuclear Reactors”?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/portable-backyard-nuclear-reactors-ready-by-2013.php
well, there goes any hope of expanding nuclear power
cannot build new plants or expand old ones when waste disposal is an unresolved crippling issue
and Yucca is SO close, and the safety issue is another bogus environmental hype
looks like everyone better figure out how to build a windmill on their own property
france reprocesses their fuel, we don’t
And why don’t we reprocess? Because Congress says we can’t.
IIRC — France stores there low level waste in old salt mines.
—bflr—
this makes me want to watch The Beast of Yucca Flats (MST3K version) yet again. “Flag on the moon, how did it get there?”
Excuse my ignorance yet what does ‘blfr’ mean?
and we store our waste on numerous sites all over the country- so the enviros can claim “security” is a risk
no win situation- by design of the enviro-communist movement
it means that it is easier to type 4 letters into a post than to keep a wordpad or other file to save links in to read at a later convenience.....
****Less clear is what will happen next with the nation’s growing stockpile of nuclear waste. ****
That’s easy, He will leave it laying around right where it is until someone else has to deal with it.
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