Posted on 07/20/2010 7:01:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama is looking for help in collaring American nuclear power. On Friday, the Department of Energy asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to reconsider its refusal to kill the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste storage project. In doing so, Mr. Obama continues his relentless quest to throttle this politically incorrect form of clean energy while pretending to sustain it.
In June, a three-judge NRC panel said the Obama administration cannot halt the licensing of the facility without approval from Congress. Now the administration hopes the full five-member commission will overturn the earlier ruling and end the project once and for all. Americans should hope that doesn't happen.
The Yucca Mountain facility - a series of tunnels bored deep into a desolate mountain range in southern Nevada at a cost of more than $9 billion - was intended to provide the United States with safe nuclear waste storage for 10,000 years. However, earlier this year, Mr. Obama seized upon safety concerns raised by nuclear energy's opponents and zeroed out funding for Yucca Mountain. Subsequently, Energy Secretary Steven Chu asked the NRC to rescind the department's license request, which would force a shutdown. Mr. Obama's offer in January of $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants in Georgia was merely a diversion: Without a long-term waste-disposal solution, nuclear power has no future.
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Let’s see...
No near-in off shore drilling.
No far off shore drilling.
No more drilling in the Gulf.
No shale oil exploration and extraction.
Coal is out.
No ANWR drilling.
No Nuclear power.
Sounds like he wants to turn us into a backward, third-world hell-hole.
This elitist gasbag has got to go. I’d prefer to see him perp-walked to the Federal Pen, but I’d settle for a simple resignation...
The Oligarchy understands that the American Middle Class is built on access cheap energy-relative to anywhere else in the world.
they’re bound and determined to “fix” that.
Of course that always leaves wind and solar. /sarc
You said it well! I’d settle for the resignation also but would rather see him impeached.
Bump!
It’s not just him, it’s ALL the RATS.
Best thing to do with spent nuclear fuel is to reprocess it and put the 95% that’s re-usable back in new fuel rods.
since when is a “commision” more powerful than a “Judge” or “Congress”???
Since Congress granted them the power. Check out this article.
It's a long read, but it addresses your point.
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