tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post3782716478858076..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: USA Today on Yucca MountainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-85172916395317521892009-03-20T04:04:00.000-04:002009-03-20T04:04:00.000-04:00Here's another interesting article that discusses ...Here's another interesting article that discusses about the implication of Obama's decision on Yucca mountain and where it leaves us now.<BR/><BR/>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/03/nuclear?currentPage=1<BR/><BR/>Although I thought that the arguments and conclusions were a little negative towards seeing no end to the problem, I do agree with the statement that it does not help the cause when every new administration comes up with a new plan to deal with the waste, rather than funding more research to deal with the problem effectively.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Mr. Gunther might like the the Waste Pilot Isolation Plant in the New Mexico desert near Carlsbad ?!Vijayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06420460009909315774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-67454071183034033382009-03-17T23:02:00.000-04:002009-03-17T23:02:00.000-04:00Statistics to date:Number of non-Nevada newspaper ...Statistics to date:<BR/><BR/>Number of non-Nevada newspaper editorials supporting Obama administration decision to stop Yucca Mountain: 0<BR/><BR/>Number strongly disagreeing with Obama administration: see below<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/03/our-view-on-nuc.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/13/obama-nukes-nuclear-storage/<BR/><BR/>http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/JayAmbrose/Laying-waste-to-reason-on-Yucca-Mountain-41047872.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.mndaily.com/2009/03/08/13-billion-failure<BR/><BR/>http://www.leader-vindicator.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20276230&BRD=2758&PAG=461&dept_id=572980&rfi=6<BR/><BR/>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030701666.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/mar/08/appalling_nuclear_waste_action74272/<BR/><BR/>http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=36211&CHID=36Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-47582384479646304332009-03-17T17:11:00.000-04:002009-03-17T17:11:00.000-04:00Mr. Gunter, as you have made a career of opposing ...Mr. Gunter, as you have made a career of opposing all things nuclear, you would understand the "waste" products thus far produced would need to be stored somewhere even if all your wishes about abolishing everything nuclear were to come true. It would have to be stored with the very same or similar type of plan as proposed for Yucca.<BR/><BR/>Your side hasn't won a victory, you only kicked your own can down the road. So if you didn't like the Yucca site, what other site might you suggest?Jason Ribeirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06863185203119704249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-37211750809425584872009-03-17T16:12:00.000-04:002009-03-17T16:12:00.000-04:00Its ludicrous to blame the abandonment of Yucca Mt...Its ludicrous to blame the abandonment of Yucca Mt. on the politics of Obama and Reid. <BR/><BR/>Neither the editorial nor NEI make mention that politics and Yucca Mt. are far older than the Obama Administration. <BR/><BR/>The Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 abandoned the second repository search in granite and narrowed the 1st repository siting process to Nevada precisely because of the political fire storms fomented by DOE candidate site work elsewhere. Nuclear power was broadly getting more unpopular with more site characterization work. Might that have something to do with the unpopularity of the govermment grabbing 20,000 surface acres and erasing towns anywhere for private industry's dubious National Sacrifice Areas? That doesn't cut it in New England or anywhere else.<BR/> <BR/>Might it also have something to do with the forced location of a repository fails to pass the scientific merit smell test?<BR/><BR/>I say three cheers that this forced location effort failed. <BR/><BR/>Its a credit to our democracy and a testiment to the Ponzi Scheme this industry seeks to perpetrate on countless future generations.<BR/>Electricity is a fleeting product of nuclear power, its timeless legacy is hazardous nuclear waste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com