Posted on 06/07/2010 7:04:54 AM PDT by epithermal
An expert scientific commission to visit Hanford next month has a fascinating scientific mandate from President Obama: Look everywhere in America for the best place to bury radioactive reactor wastes.
Everywhere, that is, except Nevada. Nevada, the state where the federal government has spent $10.5 billion developing Yucca Mountain as a permanent nuclear waste repository. The dry-as-talcum-powder state identified 20-plus years ago as the best place in America to bury radioactive waste.
We know this is a highly scientific mission because Obama has assured the nation that – unlike George W. Bush – he would never, ever, so much as think about letting scientific decisions be corrupted by political considerations.
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It’s outrageous beyond words that we citizens have spent 10.5 billion dollars on that hole in the dry ground only to get to the conclusion that it’s unsuitable for its intended purpose. We probably spent more than 10.5 billion, and the hole is probably a perfectly fine place to store nuclear waste.
My preference would be to store these materials in multiple sites across the nation.
Nah. Yucca Mountain is better. And it makes no sense whatsoever for the Nevadans to argue against Yucca Mountain, when just a stones throw away is Yucca Flats, where multiple nuclear weapons were detonated, both above and below ground. It radioactivity were going to affect the water table, it would already be doing so.
Why not store the nuclear waste in Harry Reid’s head? It sure is empty enough to accommodate it!
Hanford is mere miles from the Columbia River. There would be NO scientific reason to chose it over Yucca Mountain...just political as has been alluded to.
These people are beyond despicable.
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