Yucca Mountain Project Cancelled

First, YEAH!!!! No more sweeping our dirty waste under the rug!

Second, YEAH! YEAH! No more ignoring our indigenous cultures!

Third, yeah man... if you have a nuclear plant in your neighborhood you better get used to the idea you're going to be storing nuclear waste in there too....

My advice: Start looking for alternative ways to make energy that replace short-sighted ways like nuclear and coal and oil.

We fought like hell, but we shut our local Nuclear plant down and blew the tower to pieces in a beautiful explosion of concrete dust. We're STILL storing the waste 30 years later. Think about it.

Cheers.
Stradius

The US maintains 104 Reactors
With 439 Reactors Globally
This is a Much Larger Issue

what are we supposed to do with it?!

I have repeatedly tried to post this article but keep getting "clipped out". Please refer to this article explaining why reprocessing is a bad idea. Thanks.

http://www.nukefree.org/news/thefrenchnuclearindustryisbadenoughletsnotexpanditt...

The atomic waste needs to be kept above ground, easily accessible to correct leaks and capture the radioactive gases. If you put it underground, it is out of sight, out of mind. The WIPP is another military 'coverup' that is a quick 'solution' for people who make bombs, (i.e. who don't care about the environment or life.) Their top priority is killing, not preservation of a livable, survivable environment.

Article at site:
USA Today Op. Ed. -- March 17, 2009
By Harry Reid and John Ensign
We applaud President Obama's bold decision to scale back the budget for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. Permanently ending the project is right not just for our state but for our entire country.
The peril of storing 70,000 tons of the nation's toxic trash just an hour's drive from Las Vegas rightly worries Nevadans, and all Americans would face a grave threat from this bad idea.
The reasons for ending the taxpayer boondoggle are plentiful: supporting data that relies on flawed science; estimated costs of nearly $100 billion; and the egregious error of burying waste that could, with American innovation, be less dangerous and even be turned into energy.
The Department of Energy's plan to store deadly nuclear waste at Yucca ignores even the most glaring facts, such as the major earthquake fault lines running across the storage site. Many Americans are unaware that DOE concedes that water will flow through the dump, eventually carrying radiation into Nevada's groundwater.
Yucca Mountain, simply put, is bad policy that is wrong for America.
America still needs a scientifically sound and responsible policy to deal with nuclear waste. More taxpayer money dumped into the Yucca Mountain project is more money wasted that could have been invested in securing waste on nuclear plant sites in dry casks, while researching new technologies such as reprocessing. There are solutions.
That is why we are working together and with our colleagues on bipartisan legislation to form a commission exploring alternative approaches. The Obama administration and the nuclear energy industry have expressed support for reviewing our nation's approach to nuclear waste so we will no longer be stuck with the current failed policy.
Forming such a commission would be only a first step away from Yucca Mountain. It's an important and necessary step, though. The effort will require input not only from our nation's foremost authorities on nuclear energy and nuclear waste, but also from policymakers, environmental experts and public health and safety advocates.
The time is now to put Yucca Mountain to rest and work together to deal with nuclear waste concerns while also protecting the health, safety and security of all Americans. We look forward to working with President Obama and all stakeholders in resolving our country's nuclear waste issues.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/03/yucca-plan-pose.html

Hurl it into Solus

This is bad news, I think we should have kept with it after sticking so much money in. O well, I guess we'll just have to build more coal power plants...fyi, there is already a well-functioning nuclear waste repository in America, it is for military uses rather than commercial purposes. It is called WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) and is located in a salt bed, a very geologically stable place. Considering this success, there are good solutions still available, but ignorant law makers don't like to see them imo. I still favor reprocessing as well.

I live near Yucca Mountain.
And we keep hearing about how it has been shut down, will not be used, etc.
Also, it is located on/near a fault line that is known to shift from time to time.

If the repository is a “no-go” why then does the DOE keep applying for the use of groundwater along a corridor that has been designated for a railway to transport the waste? (The water will be used to keep the dust down during construction)

Why is the DOE still doing EIS (Environmental Impact Studies) along this corridor?
Why do they keep negotiating with ranchers, whose cattle grazing would be impacted by the railway system?

Nevada, and especially the two or three counties that are involved could realize a great sum of federal money from this project. Part of the problem with this is, the repository will need copious amounts of water and the state engineer has determined that there is not enough water to give them without severely depleting the groundwater. (Which may already be contaminated)

FYI…The radioactive waste, from the Nevada Test Site is now in the ground water and monitoring wells are beginning to show the evidence of it creeping off the test site.
(The repository lies within the test site boundaries)

Harry Reid didn't think about the couple of hundred people that still worked out there. More people out of work because of knee jerk reactions.

where are we going to put the nuclear waste now?
this is exhausting

Idiots, with all the fucking green technology out their states are still forced to deal with this corrupt system??? All this waste will end up in the ocean and kill everything just like the movies. America will force this planet into extinction, because of their Greed for money. Just like what happened to GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Technology was self-sustaing 30 years ago and could have been advanced for the betterment of the environment and its’ people, but they decided to make deals with OPEC, and other nations in the interest of White Corporate Interest.

"not in my backyard" mentality wins again . . . damn you Harry Reid.

Since they love nuclear stuff so much drop them in Iran and North Korea. Kill two (or three in this case) birds with one stone.

Yes, lets keep radioactive wast spread about the country in over one hundred locations, some near highly populated areas, compared to one location, in a desert, that can be easily protected. I understand completely.

we have plenty of waste here in Idaho @ the INEL. it is improperly stored and is contaminating our water, air, & soil.

its much better to have the radioactive waste spread all across the country in crumbling concret bunkers close to rivers and streams.

I thought Yucca mountain was a plan we had years and years ago to deal with just this problem. Why does Obama think we need to cut funding? I think theres a lot of questions to be asked that probably won't be addressed. We'll just bury it in his back yard I guess.