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Paperboy
Rochester, MN
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 10:29:21 AM
Why did Obama shut down the Yuca Mountain storage site?
Mrs_C
Rochester, MN
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 10:32:23 AM
Because Nevada residents like my mother do not want the state to be referred to the Nation’s Nuclear waste dumping site.
OnlyTheTr
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MN, MN
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 10:35:01 AM
I think Rochester should be a storage site. They have plenty of nuclear derived waste right now. It would be a perfect solution to MN’s problem.
irishman
Rochester, Mn
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 10:47:35 AM
The decision to close Yucca Mtn. has to rank in the top 10-15 really dumb things obama has done while in office for only his first year.
I am no geologist but after you and I have spent billions and billions to prep this site, after most reports consider this site to be ideal, after the construction and safety of the transportation casks is assured, the panderer in chief essentially closes the facility without so much as any thought into a viable alternative.
Do any of you consider storing the waste on site at Praire Island to be safer than underground in the desert in Nevada?
Dan
austin, mn
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 1:42:16 PM
I am no geologist either,but I totally agree President Obama has NO CLUE!This is very typical of the democrats to oppose nuclear power. Most people do not realize the actual volume of waste it produces, much less when you can see the containers.
Closing Yucca is the most ridiculous ideas I have heard, unless there is scientific/geological reasons.This site was promised to national nuclear utilities for just the purpose of having a centrally located nuclear waste site for companies like Xcel Energy, Duke Power and Light, Flordia Power,etc.This facility was to open back in the 1980’s
A GOOD reason to keep the waste in one area is it’s ALL in one place and with threats of terrorism I would prefer to have it located 90 miles from Vegas because of nearby military support.
Back in the late 1990’s I had an oppornity to tour the facility and I could not think of a better place for the waste above ground or in the tunnels.
Mrs. C needs to rember when the government exploded atomic weapons above ground with soldiers and scientists looking on the explosion???
Paperboy
Rochester, MN
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 6:18:15 PM
As for Mrs. C (I can only imagine what the C stands for.) I’m also thinking that looking at your picture your “mother” has one foot in the sand anyway. I wonder if Nancy, I mean Harry Reid, had...Naw, the Obama administration is above that. LMAO! I also think we should resume underground testing in NV. Let’s use that hole for something! Oh, I forgot, breaking a treaty would not be PC.
sbintn
Murfreesboro, TN
Posted on 11/12/2009 at 6:29:26 PM
Mrs_C, I would bet the percentage of people who what the Obama/Pelosi health care plan is much lower than the percentage that want storage storage in Nevada but we still got “HAVE TO DO IT”.
