Will Yucca Mountain open to nuke waste on a large scale

[pwjohn]

The risk with alternatives to nukes is that power will be decentralized, 'specialists' and oil companies will have less control, accidents will be meaningless; lots of risks.

Accidents will be meaningless ? Would you care to walk me through that one?

 

[rcfieldz]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently.

The world has 270,000 tonnes of used fuel stockpiled, much of it under water in ponds at nuclear power stations, adding to the urgency of finding a permanent storage solution for material that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb - Yahoo News

After putting Billions into developing Yucca Mountain one of the very first things Obama did was shut down the project as it neared readiness.

He said they were going to develop alternatives, but the only alternative so far is dry storage on site. Millions are now being spent to build containment and security for the most hazardous of wastes.

In my opinion, Obama caved to Harry Reed. Obama has put America at greater risk for political reasons there can be no other excuse. So if the day ever happens that the dry storage fails, due to a natural disaster, or is attacked by terrorist we have Obama to thank.

Put it in 40 oz. bottles...Obama cool aid.

 

[TooTall]

To answer the OP question, no, it will not open with Obama or Hillary as president, in my opinion. Unless Congress overrides Obama's decision and I don't see those dopes doing that.

The Senate would need 67 votes to override a certain Veto by Obama and Reid would see to it that the Democrats supported Obama.

 

[pwjohn]

A new president along with Harry Reid's departure from the senate could very well lead to a change in the rules so that a simple majority vote is all that's needed to reopen yucca

 

[pwjohn]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently.

The world has 270,000 tonnes of used fuel stockpiled, much of it under water in ponds at nuclear power stations, adding to the urgency of finding a permanent storage solution for material that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb - Yahoo News

After putting Billions into developing Yucca Mountain one of the very first things Obama did was shut down the project as it neared readiness.

He said they were going to develop alternatives, but the only alternative so far is dry storage on site. Millions are now being spent to build containment and security for the most hazardous of wastes.

In my opinion, Obama caved to Harry Reed. Obama has put America at greater risk for political reasons there can be no other excuse. So if the day ever happens that the dry storage fails, due to a natural disaster, or is attacked by terrorist we have Obama to thank.

Put it in 40 oz. bottles...Obama cool aid.

I think that's one flavor of kool aid I'd rather not drink.

 

[pwjohn]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently.

The world has 270,000 tonnes of used fuel stockpiled, much of it under water in ponds at nuclear power stations, adding to the urgency of finding a permanent storage solution for material that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb - Yahoo News

After putting Billions into developing Yucca Mountain one of the very first things Obama did was shut down the project as it neared readiness.

He said they were going to develop alternatives, but the only alternative so far is dry storage on site. Millions are now being spent to build containment and security for the most hazardous of wastes.

In my opinion, Obama caved to Harry Reed. Obama has put America at greater risk for political reasons there can be no other excuse. So if the day ever happens that the dry storage fails, due to a natural disaster, or is attacked by terrorist we have Obama to thank.

Both the president and Harry Reid will soon enough be gone, gone, gone so whatever they cooked up to close yucca will just be sitting there, waiting to be unraveled.

 

[pwjohn]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - More than half a century after the world's first commercial nuclear plant went into operation in the United States, the industry may finally be nearing a way to store radioactive waste underground permanently.

The world has 270,000 tonnes of used fuel stockpiled, much of it under water in ponds at nuclear power stations, adding to the urgency of finding a permanent storage solution for material that can remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Moment of truth nears for nuclear waste time bomb - Yahoo News

After putting Billions into developing Yucca Mountain one of the very first things Obama did was shut down the project as it neared readiness.

He said they were going to develop alternatives, but the only alternative so far is dry storage on site. Millions are now being spent to build containment and security for the most hazardous of wastes.

In my opinion, Obama caved to Harry Reed. Obama has put America at greater risk for political reasons there can be no other excuse. So if the day ever happens that the dry storage fails, due to a natural disaster, or is attacked by terrorist we have Obama to thank.

Put it in 40 oz. bottles...Obama cool aid.

On second thought, what the hell

 

[longknife]

A bit of news that has gone all but unnoticed - earned a page 6 or 7 bit in the Las Vegas Review/Journal = Obama's executive order creating additional national monuments in Nevada cut off any direct links to Yucca Mountain,

In other words, nuke carriers would have to cross "protected" federal land which prohibits the transit of nuclear materiel.

Nice run around and the GOP WHINO leadership doesn't have the juevos to do anything about it.

 

[pwjohn]

Some countries in Europe and Asia reprocess their nuclear waste. Reprocessing both reduces the volume of spent fuel and provides uranium and plutonium that can be used to produce more energy. However, the U.S. currently opposes reprocessing because of concerns about the proliferation of nuclear material created.

 

[pwjohn]

A bit of news that has gone all but unnoticed - earned a page 6 or 7 bit in the Las Vegas Review/Journal = Obama's executive order creating additional national monuments in Nevada cut off any direct links to Yucca Mountain,

In other words, nuke carriers would have to cross "protected" federal land which prohibits the transit of nuclear materiel.

Nice run around and the GOP WHINO leadership doesn't have the juevos to do anything about it.

If true, I'm sure that existing roadways & access ways in place prior to re designating the land around yucca into something else can be grandfathered in

 

[longknife]

A bit of news that has gone all but unnoticed - earned a page 6 or 7 bit in the Las Vegas Review/Journal = Obama's executive order creating additional national monuments in Nevada cut off any direct links to Yucca Mountain,

In other words, nuke carriers would have to cross "protected" federal land which prohibits the transit of nuclear materiel.

Nice run around and the GOP WHINO leadership doesn't have the juevos to do anything about it.

If true, I'm sure that existing roadways & access ways in place prior to re designating the land around yucca into something else can be grandfathered in

Don't count on it. Obozo has his legacy to consider and part of that is destroying the energy infrastructure of the USA.