Posts Tagged ‘nuclear’

From the AP

Yucca Mountain North Tunnel Entrance. Note the circus big top right-center. What the hell? Does this mean that Bush's DoE is a bunch of clowns?

Yucca Mountain North Tunnel Entrance. Note the circus bigtop right-center. What the hell? Does this mean that Bush's DoE is a bunch of clowns?

I kinda figured it had to happen. In a grand, F.U.  moment, Bush’s Dept of Energy has stated they want to lift the 77,000-ton restriction on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. They say that the mountain will hold three times as much waste, and that the 77,000 ton limit is arbitrary.

The Energy Department in its report said that if Congress gives authorization and adequate funds, it could have an interim storage facility running by 2015, but the Bush administration has argued against interim storage, saying it would take pressure off building a permanent repository and require waste to be moved twice.

Never mind that Yucca Mountain is a hot-button political topic in Nevada. The Bush administration is pissing on our backs and not even bothering to convince us that it’s raining.

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30
Oct

McCain’s Glowing Piles

   Posted by: Some Guy    in Politics

“We talked about nuclear power,” McCain said. “Well, it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah.”

McCain shoulda delivered that stinker in Harrisburg, PA or Pripyat, North Ukraine.  Wotta maroon.

The Las Vegas Sun has stirred up the wrath and ire of the snipey “Republican Letter Writers Brigade” with their op-ed on this latest McCain B.S.:

“McCain’s nuclear power response is symbolic of a campaign that has never embraced the deep thought and creative ideas Americans demand in this general election. Instead, McCain has resorted to shallow catchphrases, name-calling and other negative attacks to appeal to an ever dwindling base of support.”

Using only two sentences, the editors have captured the complex free-fall of McCain’s fortunes. Rock on, Nevada Sun!

As far as Nevadans not wanting to live next to a nuclear waste repository…  When I lived in Colorado, I lived next to Rocky Flats (within 6 miles) for a while at the same time Rocky Mountain Arsenal was up and running. Indeed, as a dive rescue diver, I had the bizarre honor of being the only scuba diver to actually dive at the RMA.  I’d like to reassure my fellow Nevadans that I’ve had no ill effects so far–other than the hair loss, the odd lumpy bits, the consistently strange bloodwork values, and the spike in death rates from rare cancers amongst my Colorado neighbors. Oh, and the third arm is handy so I can type and drink a proper cup of tea at the same time. Nothing to worry about.

(In case you haven’t guessed, the bit about the third arm is a joke. The rest is true.)

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