US Company Seeks Permit to Import Nuclear Waste
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/04/6827/
Perfect - now that the republican have turned this country into a 3rd world banana republic get to be treated like one
Dump it in Crawford Texas!
What shenanigans await us through 1-19-09?
We don't even dispose of OUR nuclear waste, why would we pretend to dispose of someone elses?
I'd be OK with it assuming proper measures were taken and the price is right, it's better than dumping it elsewhere (read:terrorism, exposure, population, etc.). And to be clear, we are talking about low-level nuclear waste (which includes things like lab-coats from nuclear power plants: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtml/rer_10.html). But it will never happen anyway.
As it stands, each plant's nuclear waste is stored it its BASEMENT. Literally. Every attempt to move the materials has been met with more and more law suits, challenges and protests. Even after spending tons of money on the worlds most secure facility in the middle of no where - we still let it sit at 116 relatively unsecured sites that were not designed to store nuclear waste.
Something needs to be devised and soon.
We could have invaded Mexico instead of Iraq, avoided a depression, and made it the nations storage center. Then we would kill two birds with one stone and made all you illegal eagles nuetralized.
The next President must have a good nuclear energy program.
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Originally posted by FOTD
The next President must have a good nuclear energy program.
+1
Sometimes I wish you were consistently wrong so I could lobby for banishment... but now and then you nail it.
In this instance that means streamlining the application process AND agreeing to some terms for waste disposal. The government doesn't have to do it for free, but it has to guarantee a process is available. The liability of the waste (though technically immune for grandfathered plants) stops new development.
We can either jettison waste into the air we breathe (coal) or bury it under ground (nuke). I'd much rather live near a nuke plant than a coal plant.
Yeah....What a bad idea...To have control of something that some wacko would like to get ahold of and use against us.....