Posted on 06/12/2011 1:37:51 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — In the two years that Gregory Jaczko has led the nation's independent nuclear agency, his actions to delay, hide and kill work on a disputed dump for high-level radioactive waste have been called "bizarre," `'unorthodox" and "illegal."
These harsh critiques haven't come just from politicians who have strong views in favor of the Yucca Mountain waste site in Nevada. They've come from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's own scientists and a former agency chairman.
An inspector general's report released last week exposed the internal strife under Jaczko. The internal watchdog said he intimidated staff members who disagreed with him and withheld information from members of the commission to gain their support.
The tactics disclosed in the investigative report are just the latest in a saga unfolding since President Barack Obama put the former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is Yucca's leading opponent, at the helm of the agency in May 2009. Less than a year after Jaczko was named chairman, the Energy Department sought to pull back its application to construct the dump.
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Emails and documents gathered by investigators on three House committees and reviewed by The Associated Press, along with interviews with NRC staff members, paint an even more damning portrait of the NRC leader. They also raise questions about whether the agency's independence and scientific integrity have been compromised to advance a political agenda.
"He was put there to stop Yucca Mountain, and that is what he is doing," said former NRC chairman and commissioner Dale E. Klein. Klein was appointed chairman in 2006 by President George W. Bush and left in March 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
That's really not too far back. It is BACK TO THE FOUNDING.
Virginia was an independent nation state according to the Treaty of Paris. It had vast holdings ~ one of them quite immense consisting of the former French claim from the Ohio North and the Mississippi East to the Spanish boundary for New York and New England.
ALL OF THOSE HOLDINGS were given up to the federal government as a condition of joining the Union.
BTW, at that time Virginia had half the population of the the former British North American colonies!
The FOUNDERS who had formed the United States of America, and fought for independence are the same FOUNDERS who yielded Virginia's public lands to the federal government. They went on to write the Constitution of 1790.
Do you perhaps want to fuzz forward to some other time to create some mythos about the formerly independent nation state of Nevada?
That's garbage. Nevada was part of Carolana from the foundations of Spanish land claims.
There are those who will argue that Nevada became part of the Mexican land claims when Spain signed a treaty with Mexico, but without the assent of the former nation states of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, that really doesn't count.
The USA patted Mexico on the head and paid off their dictators to get the spurious Mexican land claims out of the way, but no one can dispute that the rights of Carolana passed on to the Carolinas and to the federal government, and they were SEA TO SEA.
Your attempted acts of rebellion are being well noted ~ and when you try to run off with a piece of our country THE WATER STAYS HERE!
Lawless!
I see you still will not answer the simple questions in a strait forward manner.
Your spurious misdirection is not impressive, I’m surprised you did not throw in a mention of the Magna Carta!
As to water being “taken” and transported from VA to NV, LOL!
Too bad we could not have redirected some of that excess Mississippi river water to Nevada reservoirs by the same mythical means.
This has crept too far from the original topic, I am a Nevada resident, “All politics is local”, and I will be the one voting on our next congressman.
My view has been slowly gaining momentum as more Nevadan’s realize that we are hamstrung by Fed. control of our native resources.
I support Nuke energy, but not the current obsolete “Waste” generating designs.
Yucca is currently dead, it should remain dead, it’s death helps to pressure the Nuke industry to upgrade to the newer designs.
The new Thorium reactors can be used to quickly and permanently dispose of the old style waste.
Yucca has become a monument to Gov. waste, and the power of perpetual lobbying.
I’m done with you.
The United States paid $15,000,000 ($298,310,309 in 2005 dollars) for the land (the Mexican Cession), and agreed to assume $3.25 million in debts to US citizens. (You can check Wiki for that but the numbers and conditions are described elsewhere).
Do you imagine that the land no longer belongs to the United States of America?
We paid for that land.
You ain't getting it!
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I’ve tried to access your page several times.
I’ve tried to access your page several times.
It opens just fine if you insert the second "c" in "yuca".
That got it.
Will take some time to read, too bad it appears from the index that you are not unbiased.
That’s OK, neither am I, as I despise the manner in which the Fed/Nuke industry have been trying to give Nevada the nuclear “shaft” for so long. ;-)
Will take some time to read, too bad it appears from the index that you are not unbiased.
I don't recall ever commenting one way or the other on Yucca Mountain. Someone else provided the link; I just provided the spelling correction for it.
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Apologies, I am a moron. There are two c’s in yucca.
Try here. http://www.yuccamountainexpose.com/
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