Posted on 11/11/2010 6:37:14 PM PST by jazusamo
The re-election of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a blow to America's quest for cleaner energy. That's because the Nevada senator, in league with President Obama, can proceed with his campaign to short-circuit nuclear power.
No one has played a more obstructionist role in stopping Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository than the Silver State's senior senator. Mr. Reid's return to Capitol Hill is a victory for NIMBY (not in my backyard) Nevadans even though their backyard is primarily arid desolation unsuitable for human habitation.
Yucca Mountain's warren of caverns took 30 years to dig and would provide safe nuclear-waste storage for 10,000 years. Instead, Americans are being left to pick up the tab for what the senator and fellow anti-nuke ideologues have rendered a $10 billion tunnel to nowhere. The Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress nixed funds for the tunnel complex from the federal budget and worked to exclude nuclear energy from the mix of favored renewable-energy sources even though it produces no air pollution.
In March, Energy Secretary Steven Chu convened a panel to recommend a disposal solution but barred the Nevada site from consideration...
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On average I have visited Las Vegas every 2 or 3 years.
Guess I will have to rethink that policy. From here on out I will only travel to states that vote republican. Plenty of other places to gamble.
No longer will I support evil in any form.
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This facility is only 10 years from completion. And it has been 10 years from completion since I first started in the nuclear industry in 1981.
Yep, it’s 10 years from completion but they pour untold millions more into it every year.
Dingy Harry and his enviro nazi crowd had better finally decide to let it happen, there really isn’t anywhere else that’s practical to put the waste.
Did you dirty Harry favors mining of rare earth minerals in Nevada? He will be in favor until extraction is near. He will then obstruct it just like nuclear power. Pathetic.
Yet, even if they continue to pour millions into it, in 2020, it’ll still be 10 years away.
Second - this is all politics, not policy. That said over 60% of Nevadans oppose Yucca.
Third - If the government offered to pay ie Alaska oil payments the opposition would evaporate over night.
BTW the security at Yucca sucks. I have been within 300 yards of the entrance undetected. It is a game here in Nevada to see how close you can get to it. The winners graduate to sneaking up on Area 51. Some are very good.
[Actually there are dozens of places that are practical to store “nuclear” waste. The issue is purely political and not practical at all. ]
But that’s the rub, isn’t it. You will go through the same political firestorm anywhere you go.
The bulk of radioactive waste or Nuclear waste is NOT from power /energy production.
It is from hospitals & all the medical tests they perform trying to avoid getting sued when they cannot save you or your granny from dying at the last minute.
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