Chicago Paper Implores Trump to Clean Up Yucca Mountain Mess Left by Obama

Daily Caller ^ | 4-13-17 | Andrew Follett

[Brilliant]

Absolutely. He should open Yucca Mountain.

[Despot of the Delta]

The VIT plant they are building at Hanford is a taxpayer blackhole.

[goodtomato]

In the mid 80’s I worked on a internal reactor guide tube replacement outage. After we removed them we cut the bottom 3 foot off in the spent fuel pool, and left them. 1.2 R then, little less now.

[samtheman]

Didn’t we use something similar at Tora Bora?

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I thought so too but I looked it up and it was the Daisy Cutter I was remembering. I remember TALK of MOAB here on FR around that time, but it was the Daisy Cutter that was actually used in Afghanistan.

Daisy Cutter is pretty good too. Scalds a wide swath of ground and sucks all the oxygen out of the air. Oxygen that’s being wasted on muslims anyway.

[Reily]

Was this a “fuel air” (thermobaric) bomb or just a bomb with a lot of explosives properly shaped for penetration?
It seems to me we dropped a “fuel air” in Gulf War I.

[samtheman]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/07/afghanistan.terrorism6

This is the story I found. Here’s a description from the Nov 2001 article:

‘Similar to a fuel-air bomb, the BLU-82 - also called “big blue” - combines a watery mixture or “slurry” of ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder with air creating a mist which, when ignited, explodes with a blast that incinerates everything within between 300 and 600 yards.’

[stilloftyhenight]

Most US residents do not realize that Yucca Mtn. sits on top of a trans-San Andreas fault line! That’s right. Think about that!

We do feel earthquakes occasionally here in Vegas. They are mild, but if San Andreas goes off, Yucca will also react.

[shotgun]

The lazy H ranch. Sucking $2 billion every year from the government tit.

[Despot of the Delta]

They have to do something with those tanks, Yucca was suppose to take the tank waste originally. In addition, to cleaning up the Queen Mary’s. Hanford is a fascinating historical story, that is overshadowed by Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. It’s amazing what they built in less than 24 months from scratch.

[shotgun]

Yes they do. Even when the tanks were being constructed there was concern about them failing. Hanford was built for a specific mission and when the war ended it was expected to be abandoned but another mission was found. There has always been a yo-yo mission mindset. My first experience came the FFTF (Fast Flux Test Facility) back in the 70’s. You never knew if the site was going to survive one year to the next.

[Despot of the Delta]

I devoured three books about Hanford