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Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain
Slate ^ | 3/3/09 | Timothy Noah

Posted on 03/04/2009 2:41:49 PM PST by Nachum

Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope.

We've seen a lot of hyperbole lately about the significance of a presidency that's all of six weeks old. I hesitate to add to it. But the following statement happens to be the literal truth.

The ramifications of the 2008 presidential election will be felt for 1 million years.

One million years is a long time. A million years ago, Homo erectus (who looked like this, not this) was getting ready to invent the hand axe and discover fire. Yet 1 million years is the length of time that the Bush administration

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bhoenergy; energyindependence; good; mountain; nuclearenergy; riddance; yucca; yuccamountain
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He buddy, can you spare a kilowatt?
1 posted on 03/04/2009 2:41:49 PM PST by Nachum
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What they ignore is Yucca Flatts... the site of 200 underground nuke tests.
Like Yucca mountain is going to be a “bigger problem” ??????


2 posted on 03/04/2009 2:43:50 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Nachum

And with this, the Left proves that “climate change” is empty rhetoric to destroy capitalism, not to promote carbon-friendly energy technologies.


3 posted on 03/04/2009 2:43:58 PM PST by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...
Added to the list, ping

)You know, I thought that finally it would be a slow day...)

Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain
Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope.

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4 posted on 03/04/2009 2:44:11 PM PST by Nachum (Documented Obama confusion)
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Good riddance, liberals.


5 posted on 03/04/2009 2:44:27 PM PST by popdonnelly (I don't live my life to gain the approval of liberals and leftists.)
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To: Nachum

BTTT


6 posted on 03/04/2009 2:45:03 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Nachum

I think Obama wants to destroy America. He sure does act like it.


7 posted on 03/04/2009 2:46:08 PM PST by popdonnelly (I don't live my life to gain the approval of liberals and leftists.)
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To: Nachum
The promise of the Zero energy policy is $7 gasoline and .50 per Kw electricity.

We're all socialists now.

8 posted on 03/04/2009 2:46:13 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (Government employment exists to provide a middle class lifestyle to otherwise, unemployable people)
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To: Nachum

Maybe we can drop all this stuff onto Iran. They are all hopped up about having a nuclear program. We could help them out.


9 posted on 03/04/2009 2:46:34 PM PST by scfischer7
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To: Nachum

Yet another greeny that has Nuclear Phobia because of Three Mile Island and The China Syndrome.

These guys are going to be the death of the USA.


10 posted on 03/04/2009 2:46:56 PM PST by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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To: Nachum

What does Oboomer expect us to do with the waste?


11 posted on 03/04/2009 2:47:40 PM PST by scfischer7
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” In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.”


12 posted on 03/04/2009 2:48:47 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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I really don’t want to spend all of my time campaigning against Obama and the Democrats, but they are definitely giving me a big push in that direction.


13 posted on 03/04/2009 2:49:27 PM PST by popdonnelly (I don't live my life to gain the approval of liberals and leftists.)
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“Good riddance Liberals”

Hey, I'm with you but we are facing a dilemma. It is like wanting to sink a boat that is full of Liberals except we happen to be stuck in the boat with them. Their Policies will bankrupt the Country and will eventually discredit them. Unfortunately, thinking and honest Americans will have to endure the sinking while waiting for the rest to wake up.

We'll probably have to use candles until everyone finally throws out the myths and goes nuclear for power. Not holding my breath and am stocking up on candles though.

14 posted on 03/04/2009 2:49:55 PM PST by TCats
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“Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry’s last best hope. “

so much for doing anything serious about global warming or energy independence.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 2:50:13 PM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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The French recycle their nuclear waste as more fuel for their reactors and sell surplus electrical power to the rest of Europe.

But no, we can’t do what the French do. That would be sensible, and defeat the purpose of the Obama Plan to Destroy Amerikkka.


16 posted on 03/04/2009 2:50:52 PM PST by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: Nachum

Yet another campaign lie, that The One would support nuclear.


17 posted on 03/04/2009 2:51:24 PM PST by colorado tanker (Oh my God, am I hoping for change.)
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To: Nachum
"A million years ago, Homo erectus (who looked like this, not this) was getting ready to invent the hand axe and discover fire."

Today the homo's reject us, expect us to grow fur and turn the thermostat down to 50.

18 posted on 03/04/2009 2:51:48 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Nachum

Let’s stock it in DC.


19 posted on 03/04/2009 2:52:18 PM PST by allmost
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From the article:

"In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death."

Obama is shutting down coal, drilling, nuclear energy
and imposing a carbon tax on electricity.

That ought to bring inflation to African levels of 100,000% or more per year.

20 posted on 03/04/2009 2:53:03 PM PST by Diogenesis (`)
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