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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.
shut up, thank you.
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I'm to lazy to reply complaining about your sig.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Oh I forgot, SOME people with Mod points use them to try to keep others from reading posts they disagree with. Well attempted Censorship is easier than replying with words.
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Iowa, Illinois.... So you've got something against people who eat corn, soy, and dairy products?
gripdamage wrote:
> Hawaii is not geographically stable.
Neither is Yucca Mountain. Yucca Mountain is also a sacred site, and the Navajo deities are no more happy about the project than Pele would be if we chucked nuclear material into her volcano in Hawaii.
> Bury your waste in a mountain and in some time
> less than 10000 years from now watch the ground
> spit it out again in a radioactive volcano
> eruption likely to awaken Godzilla
> [imdb.com]-King of the Monsters: we must never
> wake the sleeping beast.
Believe me, Godzilla is very much awake and aware of the situation. He expressed his extreme disapproval on June 14th, 2002, with same day earthquakes at Yucca Mountain and the Ibaraki region of Japan. Tokai, in Ibaraki, is the site of Japan's worst nuclear plant accident, mentioned in "Godzilla 2000". The accident took place between the filming of the movie and it's release. Godzilla attacks the plants in Tokai in the movie.
The Tokai accident was so traumatic for the people in Japan, that the very next Godzilla movie rewrote history, moving Godzilla's attack on a terrorist nuclear plant in 1966 to Tokai, destroying the plant when it was first built.
"Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora: Giant Monster All-Out Attack" was released in December, 2001. It tells of a nation that has enjoyed 60 years of peace and prosperity. In its greed and arrogance, it has forgotten the gods, the traditions of the past, and the horrors of nuclear war. The spirits of the WWII dead, from both sides, are angered, and awaken Godzilla to turn him on this nation. The movie mentions Japan, but it could just as easily apply to the United States. If Yucca Mountain is built, Godzilla will visit this country, and he won't use terrorists to do the damage (he hates them anyway). Unlike Tokai or Chernobyl, a Yucca Mountain accident has the possible potential of destroying all life on the planet!
If Congress won't see reason, appeal to a higher power. Definately time to start calling Mothra!
Sonora:"New Godzilla reading. He's moving inward toward Tokai."
Shinoda: "The nuclear plants, I knew it.
Sonora: "Afraid so."
Yuki: "Well, that's just lovely. Another Chernobyl."
"Godzilla 2000" (US version dialog)