Posted on 02/01/2010 10:20:54 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-blue-ribbon-commission-americas-nuclear-future
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 29, 2010
Presidential Memorandum -- Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
SUBJECT: Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
Expanding our Nation's capacity to generate clean nuclear energy is crucial to our ability to combat climate change, enhance energy security, and increase economic prosperity. My Administration is undertaking substantial steps to expand the safe, secure, and responsible use of nuclear energy. These efforts are critical to accomplishing many of my Administration's most significant goals.
An important part of a sound, comprehensive, and long-term domestic nuclear energy strategy is a well-considered policy for managing used nuclear fuel and other aspects of the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Yet the Nation's approach, developed more than 20 years ago, to managing materials derived from nuclear activities, including nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, has not proven effective. Fortunately, over the past two decades scientists and engineers in our country and abroad have learned a great deal about effective strategies for managing nuclear material. My Administration is committed to using this advanced knowledge to meet the Government's obligation to dispose of our Nation's used nuclear material.
Accordingly, I request that you establish a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (Commission) and appoint its members. Those members should include recognized representatives and experts from a range of disciplines and with a range of perspectives, and may include participation of appropriate Federal officials. The Commission's business should be conducted in an open and transparent manner.
The Commission should conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, including all alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. This review should include an evaluation of advanced fuel cycle technologies that would optimize energy recovery, resource utilization, and the minimization of materials derived from nuclear activities in a manner consistent with U.S. nonproliferation goals.
In performing its functions, the Commission should consider a broad range of technological and policy alternatives, and should analyze the scientific, environmental, budgetary, economic, financial, and management issues, among others, surrounding each alternative it considers. Where appropriate, the Commission may also identify potential statutory changes.
The Commission should provide an interim report to you within 18 months of the date of this memorandum, and that report should be made available for public comment. The Commission should provide a final report to you within 24 months of the date of this memorandum. The Department of Energy shall provide funding and administrative support for the Commission, as you determine appropriate, so that it can complete its functions within these time periods. Additionally, all executive departments and agencies shall provide such information and assistance to the Commission as you or the Commission may request for purposes of carrying out the Commission's functions, to the extent permitted by law. Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to require the disclosure of classified, proprietary, law enforcement sensitive, or other information protected under governing law. This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
"The Commission should provide an interim report to you within 18 months of the date of this memorandum, and that report should be made available for public comment. The Commission should provide a final report to you within 24 months of the date of this memorandum."
Between dithering over our huge need for nuclear power and the failure to drill for oil we have in the ground, we are the laughingstock of the world. This commission BS is vomit worthy.
My Crystal Ball....
24 Months hense....
“As soon as “somebody” comes up with an “acceptable” means for disposing of nuclear waste...........”
.....The End!
“0” is again tying up the issue for as long as possible under his watch.
Thank you, America, for giving us the worst POS for our president.
Seems to me that this stepping on the powers of the purse granted to the Congress by the Constitution.
So when the commission comes back and says that it is a safe place to bury waste it will suddenly be ok to complete the project and start burying waste.
The way to kill the idea — assign a committee to study it.
Damn it! They already know enough to start building plants in 24 days, not 24 months.
“This review should include an evaluation of advanced fuel cycle technologies that would optimize energy recovery, resource utilization, and the minimization of materials derived from nuclear activities in a manner consistent with U.S. nonproliferation goals.”
Is he so incredibly naive that he doesn’t realize this will be construed as a revival of the nuclear arms race? Can he really be this foolish and ill-advised?
LOL.
Yet the Nation's approach, developed more than 20 years ago, to managing materials derived from nuclear activities, including nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, has not proven effective.
Yucca mountain, after we spent billions of dollars to build it, was sabotaged by Obama and the Left, and the sabotage was probably heavily supported behind the scenes by OPEC and our enemies.
Accordingly, I request that you [Secretary of Energy] the sestablish a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (Commission) and appoint its members.
As pointed out by another poster, this is more properly Congress's role to hold hearings and take testimony from experts in order agree on a national policy for nuclear energy. Obama fancies himself the leader of the American people, and not merely the chief magistrate of the executive branch of the federal government.
Those members should include recognized representatives and experts from a range of disciplines and with a range of perspectives
"...and should include my buddies at GE who support me through MSNBC and with cash."
The Commission's business should be conducted in an open and transparent manner.
LOL
The Commission should provide an interim report to you within 18 months of the date of this memorandum, and that report should be made available for public comment. The Commission should provide a final report to you within 24 months of the date of this memorandum.
"Drag it out for two years so that I can posture just before the next presidential election that I am a moderate who is in favor of nuclear power, then after I am elected we will toss it in the trash bin at the behest of my muslim OPEC lords, George Soros and the envirowackos."
More subterfuge by Obama. He’s not serious about nuclear power.
The same type “blue ribbon” panel/commission that was supposed to fix the economy? lulz, this is a flat out joke.
Another Jack Squat worthless “blue ribbon” waste of taxpayer money.
You know what? Obama is an ignoramus: that can be to our advantage.
He and his handlers are so stupid about this issue, I bet they inadvertantly make a decision that benefits the nuclear power industry!
Here’s an example. Yucca Mountain was a bad idea from the get-go. Why store a potential energy source! They’ve handed the American people a God-send.
I say, let’s process the spent fuel and burn the plutonium to make energy. Their stubborness might just benefit everyone else, that way we won’t have to freeze our butts off in the dark!
As for what to do with the rad waste from a second burn? Bechtel Engineering and a Swedish company way back in the late 1960s/early 1970s devised a method for securing solid rad waste that Jimmy Carter later ignored. Obviously, that means it must of been highly effective!
Placing rad waste in large steel and concrete kegs is not the final act, however. These storage kegs should be placed in a deep ocean trench along a subduction zone where the rad waste will be recycled under the earth’s crust.
People in the know are familiar with how to handle radioactive material: shielding, distance, or time. Placing radioactive waste in a deep ocean trench within our national boundary - the Aleutian Trench comes to mind as a suitable resting place - will meet all the criteria for handling/disposing of these politically contentious radioactive materials.
Another straw dog....Pure and simple,,,Just a ploy by the WH communist...
In 1980, my Master’s thesis was “Fusion Energy by 2005”.
That was about the same time they quit funding the research labs.....
BUT! The path went through standardizing designs to the best two for conventional nuclear power reactors, then on to breeder reactors.
(If you have standard designs, the approval process is cut by 7 years.)
Will Cold Fusion become a reality?
NEVER!
Kinda like perpetual motion.
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