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Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And, as a bonus, if they start reprocessing the waste (and overturn Carter's executive order which outlawed the process), there will be enough storage in Yucca Mountain to store all the waste that will ever be made, until it's cooled, since most of the waste, by volume and mass, is just more fuel, and what IS really waste is hot enough to burn itself out on the scale of human life spans...

  2. Re:Thorium Reactors by bluemonq · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fun fact: the ban on reprocessing was lifted by Reagan. The government just isn't subsiziding it.