Posted on 08/08/2017 9:33:43 PM PDT by upchuck
The nation's top nuclear energy regulator voted on Tuesday to proceed with the information-gathering stage of approving a license for the contentious nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 2-1 to begin actions related to the review of the Department of Energy's license to build the radioactive waste facility after the Obama administration attempted to scuttle the program entirely.
"These next steps involve information-gathering activities related to the suspended adjudication on the application," the regulatory agency said in a statement. "These activities will enable efficient, informed decisions in support of executing any further appropriations of funds for the High-Level Waste Program."
The commission also approved the use of $110,000 from the $634,000 it has in reserve to conduct activities solely for the purpose of building the Yucca facility.
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The Obama administration had sought to close the Yucca program as a favor to then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The state has a long-held position of opposing the project.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It is odd that Nevada (Reid only, actually) “opposes” putting more nuclear waste into a hillside in an area already radiated by almost 900 nuclear bomb explosions, some contained underground, many (not all) free-released into the air, dust and ground.
But he (his staff, actually) claim that placing nuclear waste in solid contianers in monitored tunnels “could” be released by water underground coming vertically a few thousands feet to dissolve the waste containers and vitrified (melted) glass-like solids containing the waste chemicals.
Can we house Dingy Reid in there with all the containers of nuclear waste? It would be a good place for the likes of him....
Most Excellent!
Finally this program might go forward. All us LV residents have made a nightmare scenario of trains and trucks rumbling through our city with nuc waste, when it’s so easy to build routes through the barren desert to the north of the population!
Nevada state has no comprehension of the multi century’s benefit on the tax revenue from this harmless nuc repository,
Years later, that useless tar was used to make thousands of products, from medicines to plastics. I might suggest that nuclear waste not be buried TOO deep. While we can't use it today, there is no telling what our children or grandchildren might want it for...
Point B:
If anyone wants to make Reid's opposition to Yucca Mountain evaporate, just see if his son or brother owns property, that would have to be bought for an excessive price for construction of a detoured access road...
I always thought Harry Reid sounded like a stage name for a porno movie.
That’s a great series, I watched it and read the companion book as part of a History of Technology class in college. Probably still worth watching today.
Hmm, I figured it would be easy to find, but I can only find partial seasons.
Excellent news!
Harry Reid opposed it because he could not make money off it himself.
Sorry but you are wrong. There was never any nuclear testing at Yucca Mtn. It isn’t even in the nuke test area.
In an operating nuclear plant, highly radioactive fuel rods are safely stored indefinitely in 15 feet of water in a swimming pool. There are parts of the ocean that are 7 miles deep. What prevents safe, cheap, and permanent burial at sea for nuclear waste? There are already a US and a Russian nuclear submarine down there, not bothering anybody.
FINALLY !
Note to Trump: Grant the license by executive order and get it moving.
Note two to Trump: Tell the courts not satisfied with the 1,000 year short time that the Yucca storage facility may be ranked as safe, that the executive branch will go ahead for now and the courts have 1,000 years to come up with a better solution. In this the executive branch will exercise its independence for this nationally critical facility and keep the judges and litigants against it in court.
Wonder what will happen to Yucca Mountain when the caldera at Yellowstone blows? Wonder if it will make any difference?
You are, of course, correct. It is 23.6 miles (LoS/Line of Sight) from the northern Yucca Mountain repository tunnel entrance to the nearest larg slump crater at Yucca Flat.
And, for a sense of proportion, it is only 13.5 miles from the big Sedan surface test crater to the transient fighter/trainer A/C parking ramp at Groom Lake (Area 51)...
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And, FWIW, while I'm "in the vicinity & measuring", it's
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Disclaimer: All the above is public info -- or is viewable and measurable using the free download of Google Earth and the current public Google earth databas...
Go to YouTube. All the series, original, 2nd and 3rd are there.
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