Posted on 02/02/2010 11:20:28 AM PST by neverdem
Funny, I saw that very same sentence when I looked up EMOcrat in the dictionary.
Obama’s budget kills funding for Yucca. No more storage means he LIED about new Nuclear Power Plants.
Actually, background exposure from all sources give an annual exposure of about 300 mR.
Nuclear waste storage is simple, drill a well offshore near a continental plate subduction zone and dump it into there, by the time that crust has recycled itself the radio activeness will be gone.
With some of the oil drilling tech where they can go sideways we could even jam it almost into the area where the crust is nearly being liquefied.
PROBLEM SOVLED!
Then they could sell it to Iran for a dirty bomb.
>> I knew that was a lie when it left his lips.
Maybe he’s planning on outsourcing our waist to China like we do everything else. <<
That may be our only hope, Pollute China so bad they don’t have the will to fight, of course this could backfire as they could see the USA as a clean land ripe for conquest.
And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.
As any greenie will tell you these "new generation" plants don't yet exist. They are either theoretical or are on the drawing board waiting for a buyer.
They are indeed real, and being built in Europe, Japan, China, Korea. Just not here, we are too stupid for that. Nuances, penumbras, we are elite.
Not necessarily, although I don't trust him. He could agree to reprocess it like the French. He could agree to pebble bed reactors. I believe Westinghouse, since bought by the Japanese, perfected the design, IIRC. He could agree to thorium reactors too.
The uunusable waste could be dumped in a subduction zone like GraceG suggested. I'm not holding my breath.
Yes correct. They are not real HERE. I like the pebble bed idea myself.
>> The uunusable waste could be dumped in a subduction zone like GraceG suggested. I’m not holding my breath. <<
If we could re-process nuclear fuel we could use a lot of stuff we normally bury or contain. There is very little than cannot be used. We can use Neutron and gamma emitters to “breed” light weight isotopes for “Beta-Batteries” we can use Alpha Emitters as well for generating Helium.
There is a lot that could be done to “Use the whole buffallo” as it were. Most of the roadblocks are silly dumb legal issues.
“American taxpayers have already invested more than $13 billion over 30 years to build the facility and make it redundantly safe. In 1982, the U.S. government agreed to begin accepting nuclear waste at the site in 1998. Failure to meet that deadline has already cost us $565 million in legal settlements and is estimated to run up to $11 billion over the next decade.”
Funny, how Reid and the rest of the demons are allowing all this money to be spent on something they have no intention of allowing to be used. Hole to knowhere?
Whatever the govt touches, it f***s up.
They already do! We can't throw out CFL, batteries, paint, and other "harzardous" materials. We must save them and then once a year (yes one day a year) they expect me to drive across the county drop them off at a gubment approved site.
As to the reactors, 0 does not care what exists only on what could be. According to libs there is no such thing as clean and safe nuclear power. Like everything 0 says, the lie or contradiction is contained in the same breath.
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