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Nevada Senator Harry Reid and the rest of the Nevada politicians are the reason DOE is moving so slowly. Regardless of which agency is responsible for nuclear waste management, these people will continue to do their worst to block it and slow it down. They are costing U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars every year. They should be ashamed.
This is the most ludacrous posting I have ever seen on AAEA. First, simply from an environmental justice base, why isn't AAEA proposing that the nation's nuclear waste repository be placed in, say, Beveryly Hills, where some significant portion of the consumption-based society could accept the societal burden it owes? Well, we won't hold our breath for that. For "Anonymous," you need to do some homework. It isn't the politicians who are holding YMNWR hostage - it's the errors in the safety analyses and the associated assumptions that keep the ACNW from approving the DOE plan. DOE memos identifying known errors in the analysis were leaked last year. If you think the "science" behind YMNWR should be accepted without a thorough review, you are profoundly ignorant. The waste that may eventually be stored in the nation's repository has to remain there intact for at least tens and most likely hundreds of thousands of years to allow the radioactivity to decay to levels that are not harmful to people and the environment. The safety analyses for such a facility must PROVE, without question, that the design can perform this function and not fail due to environmental, seismic, or design engineering aspects. Because the consequences of getting this wrong are catastrophic, you ought to be thankful that this project is getting such scrutiny and quit whining about the taxes you are paying to support our consumption-based society.
And AAEA, why not a nuke waste dump in your offices if you are so strongly supportive of the Shoshone's having it in theirs?
http://www.citizen.org/
documents...rtoCongress.pdf
We have not proposed sites for Beverly Hills but we have proposed siting energy facilities near Malibu. See the link below:
http://aaenvironment.blogspot.co...er-pro-
lng.html
We promote practical solutions to our nations energy problems. The Western Shoshone will end up with the waste repository but no equity. We believe equity is always better.
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