Report Slams U.S. Nuclear Regulator (Yucca Mountain con-job)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 6/9/2011 | Stephen Power

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WASHINGTON—The U.S.'s top nuclear-power regulator "strategically" withheld information from his colleagues in an effort to stop work on a controversial proposed waste dump, according to a report by the agency's internal watchdog, a finding likely to inflame debate about how to handle the nation's nuclear waste.

The June 6 report by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General Hubert T. Bell offers an unflattering portrait of the NRC and its leader, Gregory Jaczko, who is described as having a temper that makes it "difficult for people to work with him."

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More corruption by the environmentalists

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I wonder if Harry Reid is involved in this.

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any bets he is a Democrat?

[Steely Tom]

He figured his job as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave him the right to throw sand in the gears of the entire nuclear power industry of the United States, which supplies about 20% of all the electricity that we use in this country.

The longer Yucca Mountain is delayed, the greater is the chance that the nuclear component of our energy supply will eventually collapse because there's no where to put the spent fuel.

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Ping.

[Gator113]

Obama fails again.

There isn’t anything or anyone associated with Obama that isn’t completely and ‘historically’ corrupt.

[Digger]

Doesn’t get any better - day by day. The MOST corrupt democracy on the planet.

[abigkahuna]

Steely Tom Wrote: “The longer Yucca Mountain is delayed, the greater is the chance that the nuclear component of our energy supply will eventually collapse because there’s no where to put the spent fuel. “

>p So that is just fine logic by the environmentalweenies. The Nuke Plants are closed down—now what do you do with all that fuel waste? Slice it up like baloney? and hand it out to kiddies for school lunches? Jeez—

>p I could understand the argument that we need to de-commission our exisiting plants and install Thorium reactors, or something like that. But the fuel from today’s plants still need to be disposed.

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This is important

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Thanx again for the ping Army Air Corps !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

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BTT.

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>p I could understand the argument that we need to de-commission our exisiting plants and install Thorium reactors, or something like that. But the fuel from today’s plants still need to be disposed.

The high-level dangerous waste could be concentrated (by removing the water it was diluted with) and enter the fuel cycle for the thorium reactor, preferably the molten salt variety. We'd generate GW/years of energy and be left with stuff that decays away in at most centuries, rather than 10,000+ years.

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in an effort to stop work on a controversial proposed waste dump

The only thing controversial about Yucca Mountain is that Harry Reid thieved billions from the feds, in the form of development and wages paid, and when the thing is like 90% ready to start receiving, he decides to whip out the nimby card. That's the controversy. Harry, when do we taxpayers get our $$$$$$$$$ back? As far as I'm concerned, he took the $, we paid the $, it's time to start shipping trainloads of spent rods to Nevada.

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You hit the nail on the head. This is not only corruption, it is the abuse of power at very high levels.

Reid needs to be brought into this issue.

[SteamShovel]

He figured his job as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave him the right to throw sand in the gears of the entire nuclear power industry of the United States

Just like Barry, who thinks being Pres--ent entitled him to throw sand in the entire American.....

.....Medical Industry

.....Electric Industry

.....Food Production Industry

.....Banking Industry

.....Private Sector Business

These people are nothing but COMMIE MOLES.

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Jaczko served as a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Ed Markey in Washington, D.C. on the basis of an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. Anyone familiar with the nuclear power industry in America knows that Rep. Markey is the most ardent anti-nuclear politician in the country. Knowing that Jaczko was responsible for the technical underpinnings of positions taken by Rep. Markey ought to tell you what a devastatingly bad decision President Bush (2nd) made by appointing Jaczko as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission member in a compromise with Harry Reid. President Obama wasted little time elevating Jaczko to the NRC Chairmanship. It is unimaginable that someone bred in the anti-nuclear activism of Ed Markey was put in-charge of the regulatory bureaucracy overseeing the American nuclear power industry.