MarkTheGreat on August 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM

Dimona. Everything on-site.

MarkTheGreat on August 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM

Yongbyon. Everything on-site.

I really don’t think it has anything to do with safety issues.

Daggett on August 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM

For govt, quite probably.
However for many greenies, safety is a top priority.

I can’t tell you how many “environmentalists” I’ve talked to who are convinced that a nuclear power plant can explode, like Hiroshima.

I’ve also lost track of the number people that I have talked to who are utterly convinced that any amount of radiation will kill them. Recently on the seablogger site, I debated with a gentleman who was convinced that depleted uranium was going to kill everyone exposed to it, because it is radioactive. I finally got him to shut up about radiation when I showed him that his granite counter top was more radioactive than a DU round.

The educational establisment no longer gives people the ability to judge and compare the risks in their lives. (And I do believe that this is intentional.)

Gee, other nations don’t need a Yucca Mountain…they simply convert spent fuel rods directly into weapons grade fissile material…on site.

coldwarrior on August 4, 2009 at 5:29 PM

Where did this “weapons grade” stuff come from?

The plutonium in the rods can never be made weapons grade, it’s the wrong isotope.
The uranium could be, if it were run through the seperators a few dozen more times.
Finally, no nation that I am aware of, reprocesses “on site”. Waste rods are shipped to a centralized facility, and reprocessed rods are shipped back.

So let the Republicans run a campaign against Reid that highlights his course to kill Federal jobs in Nevada by shutting down the reprocessing center.

Hit him as a luddite for closing Yucca Mountain but failing to offer any other long-term solution to the spent nuclear fuel from nuclear plants.

Hit him as an know-nothing by exposing his opposition to nuclear power, coal, and gas, highlighting the growing need for electrical power to fuel the cars he wants on America’s highways.

Finally, highlight just how much it’s going to cost John Q. Taxpayer in higher energy fees and taxes, all of which will go to the politicians in Washington D.C. to fund their pet projects.

Nethicus on August 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM

He has a alternate solution, nationalized health care. To shrink the population.

SEND HARRY TO SEARCHLIGHT …

And to Jeff from WI – we have quite a few industries based here in the Silver State – including mining – which happens to be weathering the recession quite well.

Where in the hell has common sense gone?

patriot2001 on August 5, 2009 at 1:38 AM

With the wind?

A much safer approach is a thorium based reactor, which cannot melt down and best of all, can consume the nuclear waste from conventional reactors. The waste from a thorium reactor is not nearly as radioactive to start with, and has a half-life measured in hundreds rather than tens of thousands of years. A thorium reactor can consume the waste that has already accumulated as well as making it feasible to continue with conventional reactors.

Plus, there is no way to get weapons-grade material from a thorium reactor. Here is a link:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/12/thorium-google-talk-and-jim-hansen-now.html

Used nuclear fuel retains upwards of 90% of its original energy.

Why is it considered “used” then?

ummmm or is it?

Reid isn’t a veteran is he?

PappaMac on August 4, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Nope, and it wouldn’t matter if he was anyway.

As a comedian of yesteryear once said:

“Sir, I’d like to have a battle of wits with you, but I cannot attack a man who is unarmed!!!”

I have an idea. Lets give the libs, tree huggers, enviro nut job, and the greenies the entire west coast of the US. Providing of course we get the conservatives out and relocate them to a state of their choice. That way they can pass their own laws, enforce all kinds of regulations and basically “f’ up that side of the country without disturbing the rest of us.

milwife88 on August 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM

We used to have this thing called Federalism that did exactly that, but the leftists killed it.

I have an idea. Lets give the libs, tree huggers, enviro nut job, and the greenies the entire west coast of the US. Providing of course we get the conservatives out and relocate them to a state of their choice. That way they can pass their own laws, enforce all kinds of regulations and basically “f’ up that side of the country without disturbing the rest of us.

milwife88 on August 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM

I would go for that solution approach, however, please make it the East Coast that we give them.

Isn’t obvious that the left and east coasts could use that in the water supply to limit the population growth?
larvcom on August 4, 2009 at 7:43 PM

No. No spend rods needed on the coasts – not necessary – that’s what single payer health care is for – to limit population growth.

/just kiddin’ aggies