Clinton wants Senate hearing for Yucca Mt. alternatives

[bananas]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/jul/20/072010380.html

July 20, 2007

Clinton wants Senate hearing for Yucca Mt. alternatives
By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press Writer

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Repeating her vow to kill Yucca Mountain if elected president, Sen. Hillary Clinton called Friday for an immediate halt to the federal licensing process and for Senate hearings to consider alternatives to the proposed nuclear waste repository in southern Nevada.

"It is past time to start exploring alternatives to Yucca Mountain," the Democratic presidential hopeful from New York told reporters during a teleconference.

"Once again the Bush administration is ignoring science and pushing forward recklessly with this license application without having protective standards in place," Clinton said.

Clinton, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said she will ask the panel's chairman, California Democrat Barbara Boxer, to schedule the hearing.

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[soothsayer]

1. great!!! Especially after Japan's nuclear debacle.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. There was a nuclear debacle in Japan? When?

I know there was an earthquake last week that caused minor but widespread damage to a nuclear plant. They think some I-131 was vented, but were only able to detect it in the cooling stack and possibly in some water. The amounts were about a thousand to a million times LESS than the maximum allowable dose. If someone had splashed a bucket of seawater in the control building, there would have been a bigger dosage.

Incidentally, about a dozen people died and were seriously injured. In the quake, not at the reactor.

--p!

[jpak]

5. The damage to the plant was called "unprecedented" and will cost TEPCO $1.7 billion.

Debacle

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[Dogmudgeon]

7. They can call it anything they like. And they will.

They called Al Gore "wooden". They called George Bush "a man you can have a beer with".

So what if it costs Tepco $1.7 billion? It's a huge plant. There is a lot of support equipment to repair. The K-K plant survived an earthquake it wasn't even rated for, and with no major exposure. (Of course, heads should roll over the lax earthquake estimates, too.)

Didn't an oil refinery in Texas blow up lately?

The BP Amoco complex is the largest in Texas City, with 1,200 acres. The facility, which lies along the Houston Ship Channel, has 1,800 employees. It is considered one of the most complex refineries in the world. The Texas City site has been in operation since 1934 and supplies 3 percent of the nation's gas. The plant processes 433,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

On March 30, several explosions rocked the same facility. Officials said that fire started in a furnace. The plant was evacuated, but no one was injured.

14 dead! Over 100 injured! And not one anti-nuclear tear fell over it.

Several tons of airborne uranium and thorium was in that cloud of burning oil -- as well as tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste.

How much will that cost? BP-Amoco is still counting. But $1.7 billion might just be enough to open a damages escrow account.

--p!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. How about a1,600 acre ranch in Crawford, Texas?

[razzleberry]

3. fuel recycling, best alternative .n/t.

[NNadir]

6. Good. Is she proposing hearings on the storage of dangerous fossil fuel waste?

What you have no interest in the subject of dangerous fossil fuel waste?

You couldn't care less?

Why I am not suprised?

If the equivalent of Yucca Mountain is never built, I predict that you will still be able to produce one case in this country of a person who has been injured by the storage of used nuclear fuel.

I know you've been very busy worrying about the brazillion dead in the vast incredible, overwhelming, depopulating nuclear disaster in Japan, worrying about all the graves, so obviously this week you have an excuse for your moral indifference to the problem of dangerous fossil fuel waste.

[DCKit]

8. I've seen the same information she has....

And Yucca mountain is the best place in the country to store this crap. Argh, Politicians.

Yucca Mountain should have been activated when Bill was in the house, and she's grandstanding on the issue.

There is no more stable place in the country for the storage of nuclear waste, but the suggestion that it goes to Crawford, TX isn't a bad one either.