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Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain 212

Posted by Soulskill
from the for-all-your-one-stop-mutant-making-needs dept.
Bob the Super Hamste writes "CNN is reporting that a group of congressmen backed by the nuclear industry are pushing to reopen the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. The site has sat closed and uncompleted since the Obama administration scrapped the project. The article goes into the pros and cons of the Yucca Mountain site for storage and also brings up some interesting political issues involved in continuing development. It's also worth noting that there's been a fee on electric bills since 1983 for the building of the site."
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  • Thorium Reactors (Score:5, Interesting)

    by RudyHartmann (1032120) on Monday July 11, 2011 @04:30PM (#36726110)
    You can burn the transuranics in a Thorium reactor and extract residual energy from them. Then the hazardous waste will be negligible by comparison. Google LFTR.

  • THE US LACKS LONG TERM PLANNING (Score:5, Interesting)

    by arcite (661011) on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:04PM (#36726548)
    This is the problem with the US IMO. They lack any long term planning. The political party in power at any given time is only obsessed and focused with getting themselves reelected in four years. Thus, planning is limited to FOUR YEARS. How can one run the last remaining superpower on a four year shedule? It takes 10 years to build a nuclear power plant. How long does it take to build other MEGA infrastructure projects? There are so many unemployed out there, the US should be doing like China and upgrading its ancient infrastructure and laying the groundwork for a high-tech, energy efficient 21st century. I would suggest to raise taxes, but so far that has only made banksters on wallstreet wealthier with zero economic impact. Where is the leadership?

  • TEPCO's press release said same about Fukushima (Score:2, Interesting)

    by leftie (667677) on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:47PM (#36727012)

    Why should I believe this assurance of safety when the Nuclear Industry's track record shows they ALWAYS lie about safety and potential risks. ALWAYS.

  • Re:About time (Score:2, Interesting)

    by rmstar (114746) on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:03PM (#36728290)

    It's far worse than that. It's about irrational fear on one hand and unknowledgeable hardcore anti-nuclear power fanatics on the other.

    Fair and balanced, heh?

    It is between irresponsible nuclear energy fanbois on one hand and political and financial/technical reality on the other hand. Nuclear is not going anywhere, and it's time for the nuclear energy advocates to stop pretending. Things don't get anymore true because you repeat them over and over. When you weight the probability of something going wrong with the consequences it comes out that nuclear is not for most places on this planet.

    It is simply not true that coal (for example) is worse than nuclear. It might be so on a an average day, but if shit hits the fan, nuclear can recover all the distance in a single day, and then make some the next day. And given the corruption and incompetence of the nuclear industry, we'll see another blow to its image within a decade. I'd bet it will be a Thorium reactor by the chinese, who are going to fuck up as surely as the sun gets up tomorrow.

    Go ahead, claim it's impossible, so you are on the record when it does.

    "Ban all nuclear power! Power everything with rainbow farts from Unicorns!"

    How's that called. Nuclear strawman? Hahaha.

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