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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: RobJohnson on July 07, 2010, 02:05:15 AM
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WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. John Spratt and Republican Rep. Joe Wilson don't agree on much, yet the South Carolina congressmen are cheering a new ruling that denied the bid by the U.S. Energy Department to withdraw its application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Three administrative judges within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled last week that Congress had designated Yucca Mountain in 1987 to receive highly toxic waste from the Savannah River Site on the S.C.-Georgia border and other complexes that built atom bombs during the Cold War.
The panel found that President Barack Obama and Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a nuclear physicist, lacked the power to close the Yucca repository unilaterally; doing so, it ruled, would require another act of Congress.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/96995/judges-rule-obama-cant-close-yucca.html#ixzz0syeygCEY
But siting a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has ceased to be a question of law, science or engineering. These days, it’s strictly political – a naked attempt to get the president’s chief Senate ally re-elected.
Twenty-three years have passed since Congress settled on Yucca after an exhaustive search of other sites, including the Hanford nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington. About $10 billion has been spent on Yucca Mountain so far, and nothing suggests it still isn’t the best spot. Yet Energy Secretary Steven Chu has sent a blue-ribbon panel touring the country in search of alternatives; it stops next week at Hanford.
Read more: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/opinion/2010/07/06/nrc-judges-made-the-right-call-on-yucca-mountain/#ixzz0syfSyFUO
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Laws?!?!?
Pf-f-ft!
Those are for peasants.
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As a child my father knew close friends who bought a house and property in Yucca Valley.. They were a little to early in their timing. It was hot windy and a really small town.. I have watched this story just because of that. Nothing else to add just that~~!!!
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As a child my father knew close friends who bought a house and property in Yucca Valley.. They were a little to early in their timing. It was hot windy and a really small town.. I have watched this story just because of that. Nothing else to add just that~~!!!
Is this where they live? http://www.yucca-valley.org/