DOE To Abandon Yucca Licensing Effort Next Month

[bananas]

I'm glad Obama is keeping his promise on ending this money pit.

http://www.theenergydaily.com/Yucca/

November 9, 2009
DOE To Abandon Yucca Licensing Effort Next Month

BY JEFF BEATTIE

The Energy Department plans to abandon next month its Yucca Mountain license application pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to internal DOE documents obtained by The Energy Daily, a move intended to bury the proposed Nevada nuclear waste repository for good.

In the meantime, sources say the White House and DOE have been engaged in considerable debate over whom to name to a “blue ribbon” panel that Energy Secretary Steven Chu is forming to identify waste disposal alternatives to the Yucca project, which President Obama says is unsafe.

Rumored candidates for the panel include former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft; former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.); former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Shirley Jackson, who is currently president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and University of California astrophysics professor George Smoot, who some say Chu has favored to chair the panel.

DOE’s accelerating effort to wind down Yucca Mountain is made clear by draft DOE documents obtained by The Energy Daily last week on the agency’s fiscal year 2011 budget. The documents show DOE will request only $46.2 million for Yucca in fiscal 2011—all of it aimed at closing the project.

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[izquierdista]

1. "Round up the usual suspects!"

Is there no blue ribbon panel that Brent Scowcroft and Lee Hamilton can't improve?

[bluestateguy]

2. Dump it in Oklahoma

nt

[greennina]

6. There's not enough people there to make sick...

to make it worthwhile for the government. They'll find somewhere with a much denser population to dump it.

[madokie]

9. Easy now

not all of us are inhofesandcoburns :-)

[Massacure]

3. So instead of storing all of our nuclear waste in one location...

We are going to store it in 110.

How does everybody feel about that?

[bananas]

5. The waste has to be stored on-site for several decades anyway.

1) Yucca Mountain wouldn't open for at least ten years
2) There's already more waste than would fit in it,
so we'd need to dig several more depositories
3) There's so much waste, it will take several decades to move it all

So, the waste has to be stored on-site for several decades anyway.

edit to add: How do you feel about that?

[NNadir]

4. Good. Used nuclear fuel is way to valuable to dump it.

You'd have to know science to know that, but this fuel is a precious resource for future generations to use once the anti-science ignorance of the anti-nuke religious cults is done killing people.

[bananas]

7. *** the precious ***

:rofl:

[NNadir]

8. This is definitely at the level of your mentality. In fact, fundie boy, you cannot

produce even ONE case of injury from used nuclear fuel and clearly don't give a rat's ass about how many people DIE from dangerous fossil fuel waste EVERY DAY.

Since you are unfamiliar with the contents of the scientific literature, you also know zero about mutagenicity of dangerous fossil fuel waste.

You would not know the geometry of a PAH or how it interacts with DNA because you just don't care, don't know a damn thing about SAR or any other subject.

EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the anti-nuke cult has a cartoon view of energy punctuated by cartoonish stupidity.

History will have a way of recording what these cults have done by the way and I assure you that the place for this cult will be even worse than the place reserved for another anti-science bigot Urban VIII.

Afterall, Urban VIII's anti-science didn't actually kill people. Yours does. Every. damn. day.

http://www.who.int/entity/quantifying_ehimpacts/countryprofilesebd.xls">World Health Organization Statistics on Deaths From Dangerous Fossil Fuel Waste and Biomass Waste.

How about some more dumb fundie giggles for the dead?

No?

Couldn't care less about the dead from the providers of the payoffs by dangerous fossil fuel companies to your pal Amory Lovins?

I thought so.

Have a nice immoral dumb fundie scientifically illiterate day.

[madokie]

10. With you it all boils down to Amory Lovins

He gets paid and you don't because no one wants to buy your wares and that pisses you off. Is that a correct statement???