Posted on 09/19/2010 3:56:53 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox
How does this make Reid look better?
Sorry, I botched the title. Please fix or remove. Thanks.
Nevada was happy enough to take all the money to build the thing.
In the eyes of Nevada residents he is protecting their state from becoming the nuclear dumping ground for the whole country. Blocking the Yucca Mountain project is very popular in Nevada. In South Carolina, not so much.
Yes, for the most part they were, but that was last week. Now that we're ready to start hauling in nuclear waste it doesn't seem like such a great idea to them.
The money (like all vote-buying handout money) is already spent, and non-refundable. Sorta like the Katrina dollars, the Louisiana Purchase from Landrieu, the Ted Kennedy Big Dig, etc., etc.
Get medieval on the Demon-rats.
Storing nuclear waste anywhere on land doesn’t seem like a good idea — period!
The nuclear waste should first be sealed in concrete and steel casks then lowered into the Aleutian deep ocean trench at a spot nearly a mile deep.
There it can be recycled into the earth’s crust at a subduction zone where it will literally be crushed to about one molecule thick as it pulled into the earth from which it originated.
Yes, but on the other hand, it does show how wishy- washy & wasteful the federal government is.
Or, better yet, use it again in a fast breeder reactor.
That's an excellent idea. Has anyone ever done an in-depth study on how it might actually be done?
Would it be sufficient to just drop the casks into the trench or would you have to drill into the pacific side of the trench and insert the casks at some depth to ensure they go the right way?
Or we could reprocess it as do other countries and use it to refuel our own reactors, oh wait, we can’t, Jimmah and all
Interesting/educational post/thread. Thanks to all posters. BTTT!
Any Nevadan who believes that should take a remedial course in logical thinking. First, Yucca Mountain is not a "dump", it is a highly controlled, tightly designed repository. Second, IT'S TOO LATE.....Nevadans should have thought of this before they let the gov't detonate several dozen nuclear weapons underground at Yucca FLATS (which is within "spittin' distance" of Yucca MOUNTAIN). And yes, Virginia, both sites are named "Yucca" for a reason. They're pretty much both in the same damned place.
Not necessarily a good idea. At least not before the fuel has been processed to recover the remaining fissionable content (mostly Plutonium, but a few others), and valuable radioisotopes useful in technology applications. Yucca would be great as "monitored retrievable storage" until we are sure there aren't a lot of valuable goodies in that fuel.
THEN do the "subduction zone" thing.
This site has been in the works supposedly for over thirty years; the gubmint has repeatedly balked at building a processing facility to reduce the size of the waste to make it easier to store; most of the slowly-accumulating waste generated by nuke plants is stored at or near the nuke plant itself, no doubt in terrorist-proof facilities of some kind.
Thanks SC Swamp Fox.
Sleep tight all.
It’s a good place to store the stuff. I worked there in ‘97. They talk about ground water, but it’s a dry tunnel, not like the ones in Area 12 on the weapons side under Ranier Mesa.
There were over 900 tests at NTS (Yucca Flats included). The NTS is pretty big. It takes about an hour to drive to either the weapons areas or Yucca Mtn from the gate at Mercury.
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