[BigBobber]

"The fact that the Yucca Mountain decision was made without any analysis of the transportation risks to the 123 million Americans in states through which this dangerous waste will travel is the dirty little secret," Guinn said.

Guess what governor, they didn't mine the nuclear fuel from underneath the powerplants. They transported the fuel (and continue to do so) past these same 123 million people in the first place. And there's never been one problem. So now that the fuel is depleted and less radioactive, you don't want to transport the fuel back out of the populated areas into a hole in Nevada, where it can't hurt anyone.

Talk about reality-challanged-liberal. This guy saw to many radioactive giant ant movies in the '50s.

[tubebender]

Guess what governor, they didn't mine the nuclear fuel from underneath the powerplants.

How much of the uranium was mined in Nevada in the firat place?

[mvpel]

Actually, spent fuel is more highly radioactive than fresh fuel, due to the fragments of uranium atoms that are highly unstable and very anxious to shed excess neutrons, electrons, and gamma rays. Spent fuel is normally stored in large pools of purified water on site at the power plant, where it glows for a year or two with the eerie blue of Cherenkov radiation as the particles of decay slam into the surrounding water at faster than the speed of light in water.

If the fuel were reprocessed, the volume of the waste would be significantly reduced, we would have enough fuel to power nuclear reactors until the sun burned out with proper reactor design, and the remaining small volume of waste would decay to background levels in only a few hundred years.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Talk about reality-challanged-liberal.

Actually, we're talking about the Republican governor of a conservative state.

[Castlebar]

Guess what governor, they didn't mine the nuclear fuel from underneath the powerplants. They transported the fuel (and continue to do so) past these same 123 million people in the first place. And there's never been one problem. So now that the fuel is depleted and less radioactive, you don't want to transport the fuel back out of the populated areas into a hole in Nevada, where it can't hurt anyone.

Actually, while the fuel is in fact depleted and therefore virtually useless to a terrorist trying to create a nuclear bomb, it is in fact MORE radioactive now, depleted, as fission products, than it was as un-fissioned Uranium 235 and 238. And you are absolutely right. It is going to federal land; Nevada can refund the billions of dollars of federal welfare it has received, if the state wants to complain.