The New GOP Congress Should Open-Up Yucca Mountain and Promote the Use of Nuclear Energy

Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 December 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

After four years of battle with opponents of safe, economical nuclear energy -basically same dummies closing down our coal industry (Obama, Reid, et. al.)- the large federal nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada was recently deemed 'safe' by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission... 

so why not get going with that, then?

Nuclear energy is simply wonderful in my view, and only real green kooks like the German left are walking away from it. Not even the tsunami disaster at Fukushima, Japan has scared them away from utilizing it... Tokyo knows the 1964, single-walled reactors were outdated and risky, and unlike anything you'd find in France or the US these days.

Modern nuclear plants are very safe, and GE in fact generates substantial income from international sales of it's advanced reactors. The French and Russians are the primary competitors, and what a great export business it is for the United States as well. Shouldn't we be utilizing -and further developing- our impressive nuclear technology here at home? Why should anybody else buy American if we don't?

America is expansive, works hard, and plays hard... the country is also sprawling and designed-for and built-upon cheap energy. 
WE NEED trucks, SUVs, and other large vehicles, not insane 50 mpg diktats from a clueless White House.

And we need Hemi Challengers too... this is America, dammit.

Can you imagine expanded tracking, oil shale, construction of the Keystone XL pipeline... in addition to more inexpensive, clean atomic-generated electricity?

And it wouldn't be surprising if this all lead to an economic boom, driven by cheap, nearly unlimited energy... even perhaps a general resurgence in manufacturing/export competitiveness.

Maybe this is something Boehner and Musty Mitch have got the gumption to get done... make yourselves useful for once, will ya-

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jimmah gave us the current administration in Iran. He's been a puppet of the Saudis via the Cahtah Centah at Emory U.
He's not the traitor like the present occupant of the WH but he did the US few favors.

[cotton1706]

“Maybe I’m really uninformed... but can’t it be blasted into the farthest reaches of outer space?”

I suppose so, but not being a scientist, I don’t know. AND we’ve pretty much shut down our space program. Obama has dedicated it to muslim outreach.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/02/nasa-focus-muslim-outreach/

[SMARTY]

I forgot about THAT.

[Reaganite Republican]

Obama makes Carter look like a Republican

[thackney]

can’t it be blasted into the farthest reaches of outer space?

Rocket launches do not have perfect records. Exploding in the atmosphere to spread debris across the country is too great a risk.

[SMARTY]

I thought of that, too.

With all the effort put into the idea of ‘recycling’, it’s strange these wiz kids can’t think of a constructive way to repurpose nuclear waste.

Humans... smart enough to harness nuclear energy but not smart enough to figure out what to do with the waste.

[SgtHooper]

Maybe, but the canisters for shipping terrestrially were tested by t-boning using a freight train, and surpassed with flying colors. I then wonder how much damage a failed rocket could do to such canister. But agree, one failure could spread radiation over a large area, in effect, becoming a nice “dirty weapon” we dumped on ourselves.

[thackney]

It can be reprocessed. It is in France, Japan, Russia, etc.

But they don’t succumb to the fear-mongering environMENTALists.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Ditto what you said. Thorium!!!

[rellimpank]

—and thanks to years of anti-nuke propaganda by nearly every “news” source in Nevada, this will be the state’s battle of the century—

[justa-hairyape]

So we should support GE because they have done such good things for the conservative cause ?

So your next article will be supportive of GS ?

[flaglady47]

Can this be done by Congress alone or can Obama veto it some way, or issue an executive order against Yucca use. If he can’t do anything, great, go for it. And what a wonderful way to stick it to Harry Reid at the same time.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not to mention the quite enjoyable sense of payback to Harry Reid.

[tanknetter]

An even better idea is inside a mountain in the desert in Harry Reid’s home state.

;-)

[justa-hairyape]

Reid is motivated by greed. He thinks it will lower his land value. He could care less about the environment.

[sphinx]

Open up the Yucca Repository, and rename it the Harry Reid Memorial Dump.

[Vendome]

Damn straight they should.

And, we could take nuclear excesses from other countries...like Iran.