Obama: Build more nuke plants & close Yucca mountain

[The Brain]

When Sweden recently picked the site for final storage the two contenders both wanted to get it.

[Viking]

When Sweden recently picked the site for final storage the two contenders both wanted to get it.

Do you want the Money that goes with a Nuclear Storage site in your county?

• Jahhhh
• Nohhhh
• Yahhrån

[The Brain]

When Sweden recently picked the site for final storage the two contenders both wanted to get it.

Do you want the Money that goes with a Nuclear Storage site in your county?

• Jahhhh
• Nohhhh
• Yahhrån

Americans do not understand pork.

[KRonn]

When Sweden recently picked the site for final storage the two contenders both wanted to get it.

Do you want the Money that goes with a Nuclear Storage site in your county?

• Jahhhh
• Nohhhh
• Yahhrån

Lol...

[Viking]

When Sweden recently picked the site for final storage the two contenders both wanted to get it.

Do you want the Money that goes with a Nuclear Storage site in your county?

• Jahhhh
• Nohhhh
• Yahhrån

Americans do not understand pork.

I take your moving the City of Kiruna 500 meters down the road and raise you a Bridge to Nowhere.

[frunk]

By letting the Yucca Mountain project go forward and then stopping it when they try to use it, they get all the benefits of the pork but none of the waste.

[Viking]

By letting the Yucca Mountain project go forward and then stopping it when they try to use it, they get all the benefits of the pork but none of the waste.

The only possible response

[dps]

Yucca seems to be a technical clusterfuck anyway so dropping it may be sensible, I don't know.

Why didn't they secure the approval of the locals at a very early stage? Or did they and then lost it?

Do you want a storage site for nuclear waste in your county?

• Yes
• No
• Jaron

I'd rather have it in my backyard than some of the coal slag piles and such we actually had back home.  But people are all like, "OMG, radioactivity!" as if the word itself would kill you.

[MadImmortalMan]

Nevada's NIBMY's have a lock on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

Not just on Harry. There's not a single politician, Democrat or Republican (or AIP, Green, Constitition, CPUSA, Libertarian, SEP, WFP or any other wacko party) who supports it. It's a completely untenable position to take if you want to get elected.



My personal take--NV should have everyone pay them to take the spent rods and store them, and then later on, when those same rods can be used as fuel for more advanced reactors, sell the shit right back to everyone and make money again. There is the problem that a bunch of the promises the feds made to NM were not kept though.

[Tonitrus]

The obvious solution is put nuclear waste on Iranian rockets to be shot into the Sun.

[The Brain]

GOTCHA?

[Faeelin]

Americans do not understand pork.

That part of Nevada was really offered that much pork for it, and Nevada has Las Vegas, which is worried about the effects on tourism.

One of the proposals I suggestsed this summer was that, given tribal sovereignty in terms of environmental laws, we should offer it to a tribal reservation.

[Faeelin]

My personal take--NV should have everyone pay them to take the spent rods and store them, and then later on, when those same rods can be used as fuel for more advanced reactors, sell the shit right back to everyone and make money again. There is the problem that a bunch of the promises the feds made to NM were not kept though.

Really? My understanding is most people near the waste site in NM were pretty happy with the outcome.

[Tonitrus]

No one appreciates the value of a third arm until you actually have one.

[DGuller]

How much would Nevadans get paid to act as a nuclear dumping ground?