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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.
oh yeah
Introduction
The cheese wheel inexorably avoids contact with the paycheck. The steam engine goes deep sea fishing with an often outer ski lodge. When the cyprus mulch over a vacuum cleaner hides, a ball bearing gets stinking drunk.
The tornado
For example, a submarine behind a class action suit indicates that the optimal fairy satiates an Alaskan recliner. When a mitochondrial bottle of beer is thoroughly dirt-encrusted, a most difficult blood clot underhandedly writes a love letter to a defendant. An earring pees on the cashier over some globule, but the pathetic crane sells another vacuum cleaner behind a scythe to a false wheelbarrow. If a chess board defined by a grain of sand makes love to a crispy cyprus mulch, then a particle accelerator flies into a rage.
A Eurasian globule
The feline minivan earns frequent flier miles, and the buzzard defined by a ball bearing trembles; however, a senator living with the girl scout learns a hard lesson from the inferiority complex. Any chain saw can try to seduce the particle accelerator, but it takes a real salad dressing to play pinochle with the inexorably precise paycheck. Furthermore, another seldom load bearing defendant flies into a rage, and a paycheck around a light bulb seeks a roller coaster around another bartender. If a crank case makes love to the diskette, then the squid toward a mortician meditates. Now and then, an insurance agent thoroughly avoids contact with a pompous turkey.
A microscope
Most people believe that an orbiting diskette trades baseball cards with a movie theater, but they need to remember how secretly a statesmanlike short order cook wakes up. A paternal roller coaster is usually financial. When the accurately varigated hole puncher takes a coffee break, a slyly smelly garbage can earns frequent flier miles. For example, the phony cheese wheel indicates that the tornado near a fruit cake hesitantly gives lectures on morality to a salad dressing defined by the corporation. The carpet tack near a cargo bay, some parking lot toward a warranty, and a stovepipe beyond a freight train are what made America great!
Conclusions
A judge beyond the briar patch laughs and drinks all night with the snooty chestnut. A raspy burglar conquers a bowling ball. For example, another plaintiff toward a bartender indicates that the ski lodge behind a fairy finds lice on a burglar. If some rattlesnake toward a cheese wheel can be kind to a blood clot, then the elusive movie theater self-flagellates. When a photon related to a turkey is most difficult, a self-loathing bottle of beer falls in love with a pickup truck living with the paycheck.
- poopbot: because we're all crapflooders at heart
shut up, thank you.
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.
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.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
Iowa, Illinois.... So you've got something against people who eat corn, soy, and dairy products?
And how would this not be the coolest thing ever?
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)