Yucca Mountain Approved for US Nuclear Waste Storage

Cephalien writes "As reported by Reuters (The link is from AT&T Worldnet -- No registration required, etc, etc), looks like congress has pushed this through against Nevada's objections (NIMBY, anyone?). Now all that's left is the licensing from the NRC. I dunno about you folks, but I'm glad I don't live in Nevada." After 20 years in the making and 4 billion in studies construction on the $58b facility can begin. It was this or Cmdrtacos basement.

Comments

So..

[Anonymous Coward]

...you're keeping your waste at home now, instead of dumping it into the third world?

Wow, what a nice step one towards fixing that whole "hated on a global stage" thing.

Re:Finally.

[ZxCv]

..athe Yucca Mountains are as desolate as you can get.

90 miles from a city of 1+ million is as desolate as you can get? Hardly.

If the decision on where to put waste was purely scientific, it would not be going to Yucca Mountain. This is decision was about as political as you can get. I didn't have much faith in Congress or the President doing The Right Thing(tm), but with any luck, the courts will see through the policitical BS and make a decision that is inline with most Nevadans and any objective scientist with knowledge on the matter: that nuclear waste needs to find a home other than Yucca Mountain.

Re:Finally.

[ZxCv]

Political? I doubt it.

Political in that there were other sites that were scientifically better suited for the project and they were not chosen, largely because of Nevada's lack of power in Congress at the time.

damn, get over that illusion

[Control42]

You don't have the worlds largest GNP, and you're not the leading edge in science or economics any more. Except for your oversized bloated miliary you're just an average western industrial nation. And one that's heading down the drain at that. So stop acting like you were still the world leaders, and grow up.

Re:Unfortunately...

[porkchop_d_clown]

Does that include the cost of replacing all the hawks the turbines chop up, or the real estate consumed by the wind farm?

You are correct, too bad you are an ass.

[Erris]

It's true that fusion irradiates its containment. A profesor of mine did calculations on cooling mantles and found that the proposed plant would produce as much high level radioactive waste as the average fision plant over its life. The plant itself would be the waste!

Now as for the 90% energy cut without pain. Ignorance is not strength. Most electric usage is industrial. Try cutting it off and see how fast the entire economy falls on it's ass, and you go hungry! SUV's use NO electricity, execpt in their production. The Japanese are showing us how to reduce that by building vehicles that do not die in five years. All the 3,000 square foot houses in the country don't consume that much more electricity than so many greenhouse condos in the sky. They also produce a much nicer micro climate than the blasted steel, glass and concrete inner city that is the alternative. Paris is well built, Manhatan and the cities on the coast of Yemen Manhatan resembles are not. American suburbs are not so bad, though most need more unified road planning.

There is NO reason to cut back on cheaply produced Nuclear power, and every reason to make more of it. Air conditioning, refidgerators, modern medicine and laundry equipment are all tremendous quality of life enhancers. Nuclear does it without emmisions that are changing the whole planet's heat balance with the sun and stars. We need MORE not LESS. Only those who want to gain power over their neighbors would create an artificial scarcity. The only use for such power is further abuse. Get lost. You will not degrade my standard of living. I will make such improvements available to others.