Yucca Mountain commission to recommend that a new site be found for nuclear waste

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

A blue-ribbon commission assigned by President Obama in January 2010 to come up with an alternative to the plan for a nuclear waste repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain will recommend that at least one new site be found to store waste left over from the nation’s nuclear power plants, people familiar with the report said Thursday.

The commission — chaired by former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush — does not suggest where that storage site would be located.

Their report, to be issued Friday, does urge the creation of a new federal corporation to manage the site, rather than turning it over to the Energy Department, which is responsible for managing nuclear waste. And it recommends guidelines for a selection process — such as giving local communities, but not states, the power to veto a facility.

Many members of the commission believe that New Mexico, which already has a nuclear waste storage facility, might prove more receptive than Nevada to a federal waste site.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/yucca-mountain-commission-to-recommend-that-a-new-site-be-found-for-nuclear-waste/2011/07/28/gIQAhayrfI_story.html

[pam4water]

1. Yeah turn it over to a private company to manage cause they are sooooo much better at managing than

the government. :sarcasm: And WTF is Brent Scowcroft or anyone form Kissinger Associates/Bush administrations doing on a critical panel like that one. Seems like another commission that was designed to fail.

[saras]

2. I heard there's really good site only 92 million miles away, but there are transportation issues...

[JesterCS]

3. if lifting-body tech wasnt so low-tech still.

id say shoot nuclear waste into the sun. Then again you have the chance of the thing exploding in atmosphere. but... ya =D

[no_hypocrisy]

4. 7th District of Virginia (Eric Cantor's home turf)