Posted on 12/09/2014 7:17:50 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
And put in place a program to develop Thorium based power plants.
Nuclear waste has to be stored SOMEWHERE, until we can figure out what to do with it, recycle it, etc.
And the safest place would be in a dry place. And inside a mountain in the middle of the desert seems to me to be a good idea.
Follow the example of the French nuclear program. Reprocess the wastes which are 95 percent of the nuclear fuel.
Hear hear!
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Sorry for the sloppy editing- my spell check is too smart for it’s own good too
Blame Amy Carter and her feckless dad.
The facility itself is impressive... was expensive... and is not being utilized, how silly
No doubt
I thought this was initiated under President Ford.
New GOP Congress first priority is to find their gonads, don’t ya know?
Amen! Start being smart about energy instead of acting like helpless victims.
Some work is started
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr7176/
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1405/ML14050A083.pdf
The ban on reprocessing was a Carter decision,
based on his daughter’s fears of nuclear proliferation.
(Reprocessing extracts plutonium which can be used for bombs)
Go to the moon. Mine the regolith for HE3 and lets get clean and safe fusion on line. But use fission to get there (do a search for Freeman Dyson’s project Orion). Let’s use the knowledge we have to make a better human race. Not hide from it like the so called progressives would have us do.
At least Carter didn’t cost us an ENTIRE DECADE of prosperity like the current occupant has.
Maybe I’m really uninformed... but can’t it be blasted into the farthest reaches of outer space?
Have I been watching too much sci fi?
The problem with building a nuclear power plant is that the NRC gets involved and orders expensive design changes in the middle of construction.
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