Posted on 03/04/2009 2:41:49 PM PST by Nachum
Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope.
We've seen a lot of hyperbole lately about the significance of a presidency that's all of six weeks old. I hesitate to add to it. But the following statement happens to be the literal truth.
The ramifications of the 2008 presidential election will be felt for 1 million years.
One million years is a long time. A million years ago, Homo erectus (who looked like this, not this) was getting ready to invent the hand axe and discover fire. Yet 1 million years is the length of time that the Bush administration
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What they ignore is Yucca Flatts... the site of 200 underground nuke tests.
Like Yucca mountain is going to be a “bigger problem” ??????
And with this, the Left proves that “climate change” is empty rhetoric to destroy capitalism, not to promote carbon-friendly energy technologies.
)You know, I thought that finally it would be a slow day...)
Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain
Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope.
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Good riddance, liberals.
BTTT
I think Obama wants to destroy America. He sure does act like it.
We're all socialists now.
Maybe we can drop all this stuff onto Iran. They are all hopped up about having a nuclear program. We could help them out.
Yet another greeny that has Nuclear Phobia because of Three Mile Island and The China Syndrome.
These guys are going to be the death of the USA.
What does Oboomer expect us to do with the waste?
” In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.”
I really don’t want to spend all of my time campaigning against Obama and the Democrats, but they are definitely giving me a big push in that direction.
Hey, I'm with you but we are facing a dilemma. It is like wanting to sink a boat that is full of Liberals except we happen to be stuck in the boat with them. Their Policies will bankrupt the Country and will eventually discredit them. Unfortunately, thinking and honest Americans will have to endure the sinking while waiting for the rest to wake up.
We'll probably have to use candles until everyone finally throws out the myths and goes nuclear for power. Not holding my breath and am stocking up on candles though.
“Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry’s last best hope. “
so much for doing anything serious about global warming or energy independence.
The French recycle their nuclear waste as more fuel for their reactors and sell surplus electrical power to the rest of Europe.
But no, we can’t do what the French do. That would be sensible, and defeat the purpose of the Obama Plan to Destroy Amerikkka.
Yet another campaign lie, that The One would support nuclear.
Today the homo's reject us, expect us to grow fur and turn the thermostat down to 50.
Let’s stock it in DC.
"In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death."
Obama is shutting down coal, drilling, nuclear energy
and imposing a carbon tax on electricity.
That ought to bring inflation to African levels of 100,000% or more per year.
“expect us to grow fur”
can’t even do that. animal rights, you know.
Since we already spent tens of billions of dollars on it, can we at least turn it in to a homeless shelter or community center?
Dont put it past the Dictator to put Conservatives in there.
These turds won’t be happy until we’re all back in caves scratching crude drawings on the walls and pooping in dirt holes.
bookmark to read in 1,000,000 years.
Be careful what you wish for..., it could very well become a huge "RE-EDUCATION CAMP FOR IDEALOGICAL DISSIDENTS"!!!
—absolute idiotic rot—
Reversing President Carter’s unilateral limitation on processing spent fuel would cut that half life. But of course, would result in a lot more plutonium.
I don’t think any other country has this limitation.
Reprocess, reprocess, reprocess, reprocess, reprocess..... libs love France, why can’t they learn something from the French on this subject???
You must be one of the last people who didn’t know for certain that this PRECISELY what he’s about.
The spent fuel rods have to go somewhere or be kept on the original site.
I would think it would be better to gather it all up and store it in one place then to keep it scattered around the country.
Just my opinion of course.
Hey Obama, I am going to run an electric wire from the white house to my house so I can get some affordable electric power.
You will have driven prices so high I can’t afford electricity any more.
Thanks Commie Ba$$$$d.
My understanding (someone correct me if I’m wrong) is that the most dangerous stuff decays within a few hundred years. Material that is emitting a lot of radiation gets used up pretty quickly.
The most likely scenario for Yucca Mountain is that some future generation will find a use for that waste and dig it up.
I’m one of the minority of freepers who think there MAY be something to this threat of global warming. (I’ve read many articles on both sides of the issue.) But I don’t see how liberals can proclaim that global warming will kill us all and then say that the risks of Yucca Mountain are toogreat to consider.
These liberals sound like the kind of people who would die of dehydration in the wilderness rather than drink from a stream because untreated stream water might make you sick.
My point is storing in a place that is already contaminated for the next 200,000 years.
Check Google earth - southern Yucca county, NV.
Can the states store nuclear waste on their own?
I didn’t follow all the scientific stuff that close but I thought the mountain was picked because of how stable it was.
Could the underground test have caused fractures in the deep rock? I don’t know but think that somebody would have looked into it.
But why do we even need the Yucca Mountain site? Each reactor generates only about 3 cubic meters of high level waste per year, so there's plenty of room to continue storing the waste on site at each plant.
Wow! Thanks for telling me about that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat
so a thousand foot deep hole in a damn big mountain is a “big problem”, eh?
I seem to remember a Ruskie beating his shoe at the UN saying we would destroy ourselves.
I've been saying the hard left wants to do this to the economy for years.
I always get stupid stares and responses like.....
....."They would do that all at once would they?"
Yes They Can....and Obama Will.
RIP modern life.
RIP USA.
We may have some sites opening up in Venezuela.
Maybe.....
....But I think Sudan is what they are shooting for to be honest.
Crap!!!
No. I just don’t see why the federal government should be involved in nuclear waste disposal. Let each plant store it on site. If a private company wants to make a centralized storage location, that’s fine too.
Well, the good news is that most of the soon-to-be-overfilled-and-glowing local dump sites are in blue states. Then, eventually, the blue-staters will be physically deformed in addition to their current mental derangement.
They never know, so I tell them to guess. They usually say 10. I fact, half the libs I've asked, and I probably have asked a dozen or so, said 10 as their first guess.
Anyway, I say no and they guess again. Usually they guess a higher number the second time around. That is when I give them a hint. The hint is, one less than died in Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile.
At that point they get pissed and start stammering on about Chernobyl. You can always count on their ignorance.
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