Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:05AM from the for-all-your-one-stop-mutant-making-needs dept.

Bob the Super Hamste writes "CNN is reporting that a group of congressmen backed by the nuclear industry are pushing to reopen the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. The site has sat closed and uncompleted since the Obama administration scrapped the project. The article goes into the pros and cons of the Yucca Mountain site for storage and also brings up some interesting political issues involved in continuing development. It's also worth noting that there's been a fee on electric bills since 1983 for the building of the site."

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Wait, this means Obama actually cut spending? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-11 08:26 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Wait, this means that at some point in time, Obama actually cut spending on something?!
(Reads article)
Oh, nope. He just threw out billions of dollars that we paid for (via the tax mentioned in the summary) while increasing spending by forcing us to look for a new solution and continue wasting money on inadequate, more expensive, and above all more dangerous storage.
That's the hope and change I'm used to. I was worried there for a moment.