Posted on 08/03/2009 5:02:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Energy: A Senate vote to kill funding for the spent fuel repository in Nevada shows the Democratic Party and this administration aren't serious about energy independence, economic growth or environmental protection.
"This is a major victory for Nevada," said Reid, who is up for re-election next year. "I am pleased that President Obama has lived up to his promise to me and to all Nevadans by working with me to kill the Yucca Mountain project."
During a presidential campaign forum in Las Vegas last year, then-candidate Obama said of the site, "I will end the notion of Yucca Mountain because it has not been based on the sort of sound science that can assure the people of Nevada that they're going to be safe."
And what about the rest of the country? Reid may not want it in his backyard, but he doesn't mind keeping America's nuclear waste where it is right now — in everybody else's backyard.
Vast numbers of spent nuclear fuel rods are currently being stored at more than 130 above-ground facilities in 39 states. About 161 million Americans live within 75 miles of these existing sites. Don't they want to feel safe?
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They are celebrating untold billions thrown away, as well as our future.
This is all apart of the Barry Administration’s plan to make the US energy independent from foreign oil, etc. Bet. /sarcasm
“Death Knell For Nuclear Power?”
Only in the US... China, India, even Europe are going ahead with nuclear.
Why do I have this uneasy feeling that in 20 years we’ll be just another Britain?
Alternative Energy=Arab Oil. Who do you think financed his campaign?
Pray for America
2. Alternate storage.
3. Nevada gets no income from Yucca Mountain.
Nice going, Harry.
No recovery from what is coming is intended by this administration at all. Simply blocking the repositories for nuclear waste stops the potential of a single new nuclear plant from being built. In order for ANY recovery to occur after the bottom of this accelerating economic/financial debacle is reached, even more energy must be burned in a new, efficient economy to effect a recovery. No such energy exists or is planned that will support 300 million citizens. The middle class can, even now, not recover what it has lost in housing values alone for the rest of their lives, and much more is to be yet lost.
Obama will determine what population he wants to support and will go for it with any draconian means possible. His energy stance suggests a much lowered population and food prodcution capability in the future, and a drastically reduced economy. The ‘recovery’ when it occurs will be only for corporations and financial interests. The middle class will see no recovery...only a mandatory demand for more treadmill time on the upscaled hamster wheel.
Nuclear waste storage is a non-problem. There’s just not that much of it and it’s easy encapsulated and stored underground or underwater. Name one instance of commercial nuclear plant waste causing a problem.
Especially if they would reprocess the fuel, as does France. We could extract more energy from the fuel and greatly reduce the waste volume, but here in the US (thanks to Mr. Peanut), we throw away the "spent fuel" which still contains quantities of uranium and plutonium because the plutonium portion could be used to make a bomb.
That last statement is so illogical only a liberal could understand it, but that's the way it is.
Britain, hell. We'll be just another Kenya. And I think that's the objective. The Democrats want to position themselves as the savior - of whatever crisis they cause.
Commercial, none. Government radwaste, that's different.
And the US is helping India build it.
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