Posted on 12/15/2016 7:56:56 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Hold a ribbon cutting when you deliver the first barrel of nuclear waste and name it the Harry Reid, Jr. Memorial Nuclear Waste Dump.
Okay, folks. No one wants to defend the DOE here. But, we have got to stop holding up the DOD acquisition process as a model for anyone else to imitate. It is really really corrupt and inefficient - because that is where the real money is.
Remember this article $125 Billion Pentagon Coverup Just Discovered, Entire Report Was Buried
How about they build those fuel reprocessing plants that they were talking about building a few years back? Would be a lot better than just stuffing it in a mountain and forgetting about it.
I can see having a place to store non-recoverable elements and contaminated materials, but storing spent fuel is just a waste of money and resources.
Hmmm. Got a feelin’ that hairy screed will by pulling cat cortez mantos’ strings to put a stop to that. Just cause he won’t be in office doesn’t mean he won’t be in control. (Thanks vegas!)
Reprocessing spent rods was made illegal by Carter. That would have to be overturned by Congress, I believe. In the meantime, waste continues to build up in surface storage because Carter and other presidents have cut deals with foreign government to have their spent waste shipped here. Every person, or household, in the USA who pays a utility bill has contributed to the $15 billion dollars that has been spent on Yucca Mountain which Harry Reid shuttered =- sealing up millions of dollars of machinery in the bottom of a mountain. It’s a fraud and a disgrace!
Oooh.
Me like big time.
I forgot about Yucca Mountain and Searchlight Whorehouse Harry Reid.
If Perry can do this, he’d be the BEST DOE director in decades.
>>Reprocessing spent rods was made illegal by Carter. That would have to be overturned by Congress, I believe
IIRC, he did it by E.O. which Reagan repealed. But, in the mean time, all the reprocessing infrastructure was scrapped.
Yeah, I remember the Carter edict. That needs to go away, and our nuclear power industry brought into the 21st century.
I'd also like the DOE to do research on new nuclear reactor designs and extracting uranium from seawater.
Paging Elon Musk!
His stock went up with PEPOTUS Trump.
The secret word for today, “Visionary”!
It’s already got a name...
The Stinking Desert National Indian monument
and Cobalt Testing Range...
Now that is promising!
If you ever worked in the nuclear power industry, you would know that the key nuclear plant builders in the US sold their nuclear business, or formed partnerships, with Japanese and European companies in order to keep them alive.
In the 35 year nuclear plant building hiatus in the US, those companies kept on building and improving nuclear power plants, while we run ours to end of life.
We have some catching up to do here, but it can be done.
Both Yucca and processing plants succumbed to the same politics (green), which states that no nuclear power technology is acceptable....only solar and wind power are suitable.
Designing and running a nuclear waste reprocessing plant requires top-notch engineers, managers, and operators, who can easily find more stable (and probably more lucrative) employment elsewhere. Given the instability of the whole process due to politics, those sorts of techies will look elsewhere.
They need to do something. The tanks at Hanford are being held together with spit, baling wire and duct tape, while taxpayer money is being thrown in to the VIT Plant backhole.
Nevada went for Hillary. I sat stick it to them.
Up until Carter, we actually HAD spent fuel reprocessing plants. The only real problems are the political will, and regaining that technology that was lost two generations ago.
Luckily, the US is about the only country that stopped reprocessing fuel.
The others never stopped.
Finishing and operating the Savannah River Site would do America far more good than opening Yucca Mountain ... although both should be done.
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