Yucca Mountain planners reorganizing: Changes planned for nuclear waste

[NVMojo]

Federal offices in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., that run the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project are undergoing a major reorganization aimed at streamlining the government's goal of entombing deadly spent fuel in the ridge.

"There will be significant organization changes, and we are in the process of doing that," Office of Repository Development spokesman Allen Benson said Thursday.
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The change is afoot as officials continue to grapple with design changes and claims by critics that the project is rife with flawed science and questionable reports by federal geologists.

Among the objectives is to refocus the effort on transporting 77,000 tons of spent reactor fuel and highly radioactive defense waste to the mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-13-Fri-2006/news/5337709.html

[havocmom]

1. If nuclear power is so damned safe & clean, bury the wastes in the yards

of the CEOs and board members of the companies running them. Don't send that shit to the west.

[Massacure]

2. Better yet. Don't bury it at all.

Reprocess or Breed it.

[TreeMonkey]

3. Uhm, is this a good idea?

Isnt the USA's largest aquafir located about 70 miles west of Las Vegas?

On the other hand, (Illegal) immigration has driven our stable population to 300 million this year folks, which means more nuclear power plants....(more oil burned, more open space plowed under for over development, less education $ for schools, hospitals, etc...)

The environmental movement went on break after Clinton got in. We all breathed a sihg of relief and went to sleep. Now BOOM, 300 million, up from 280 million when Clinton took office...

HELLOOOOOOOOOooooo???

[Massacure]

4. Why not do it on the site of each nuclear plant?

Sending it to Nevada to reprocess seems kinda silly.

[NNadir]

5. Good idea. Let's keep the air pollution from automobiles in the homes

from people who drive cars.

The oil waste refinery sludge in the homes of the people who heat their homes with oil.

I have long advocated that all carbon monoxide from all homes heated by natural gas be pumped into those homes and kept there as well.

Let's make all Americans move to the parts of Bangladesh that will be submerged by global climate change too. It is, after all, the fault of Americans who consume more than 25% of the world's energy with less than 8% of the world's population.

There is no such thing as risk free energy. There is only risk minimized energy. That energy is nuclear energy.

[Grover_Cleveland]

6. I like the way that France deals with its nuclear waste.

You can read about it here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html

[Oerdin]

7. This is entirely politics.

There is no technical problem and instead this is just politicians grandstanding. The spurious claims of "flawed science" reminds me of the religous fundies jihad against evolution; baseless and laughable.

[Odin2005]

8. Yep, just politicians taking advantage of NIMBY.

Though I'd rather the waste be sent to a more geologically stable area, or be reprocessed and reused.