Hold a ribbon cutting when you deliver the first barrel of nuclear waste and name it the Harry Reid, Jr. Memorial Nuclear Waste Dump.
Okay, folks. No one wants to defend the DOE here. But, we have got to stop holding up the DOD acquisition process as a model for anyone else to imitate. It is really really corrupt and inefficient - because that is where the real money is.
Remember this article $125 Billion Pentagon Coverup Just Discovered, Entire Report Was Buried
How about they build those fuel reprocessing plants that they were talking about building a few years back? Would be a lot better than just stuffing it in a mountain and forgetting about it.
I can see having a place to store non-recoverable elements and contaminated materials, but storing spent fuel is just a waste of money and resources.
Oooh.
Me like big time.
I forgot about Yucca Mountain and Searchlight Whorehouse Harry Reid.
If Perry can do this, he’d be the BEST DOE director in decades.
I'd also like the DOE to do research on new nuclear reactor designs and extracting uranium from seawater.
They need to do something. The tanks at Hanford are being held together with spit, baling wire and duct tape, while taxpayer money is being thrown in to the VIT Plant backhole.
The PURPOSE for forming the DOE was to wean America off of the use of foreign oil.
It's now nearly 40 years later and the DOE has a budget of well over 30 BILLION dollars and thousands of employees who do little or nothing except BLOCK America's efforts to explore, develop, and sell our own energy reserves.
Hopefully Perry will begin to dismantle this cancer on America's energy needs.
Low cost energy and an abundance of it would do as much to turn America around as the jobs it would create.
Yucca Mountain?
Yucca Mountain is a freaking dormant volcano.
It’s still on the geologically active list.
Why would a sane person store nuclear waste there?