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proudmilvet says:
They Should Keep Yucca Mountain Open & Close Down The Senate! No Nuclear Waste There, But Lot's Of Human Waste!!
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ludvig1-2009 says:
Where do I go to reregister as a Republican. I'm not a Democrat anymore.
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hungry1968-16 replies:
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Go Independent. It's the only way to fly.
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aldon61 says:
I know people from Las Vegas; they maintain that most all of the population in that area DO NOT want the waste stored at Yucca Mountain. I also agree with sjc_1 that it's too dangerous to be transfering radio active material across our nation's highways. We're just courting a disaster. Store it on site.
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sjc_1 says:
The problem with a central repository is that you need to transport all that dangerous waste across the country by rail and truck. I would rather store it on sight and secure it there. It is a shame that they wasted all that money on this boondoggle.
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afmcalax says:
Stupid, stupid, stupid. This was one campaign promise that Obama should rethink. We need nuclear energy as one of the alternatives to energy production. We also need a centralized place to store it. I would then like to see funds approved to create a process that would could render the radioactive material inert. That would be a useful project to put our top scientists on.
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doctor_know replies:
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Wrong! The thing that was stupid stupid stupid was dumping all that cash into the Yucca mountain project in the first place. We scientists have known for a long time now that the Yucca site is not sound enough to store the nations nuclear waste, but politicians insisted on keeping the project moving forward... the project should have been scrapped 10 years ago!

I agree that nuclear must be part of the short term solution to our energy problems, and that alternatives to Yucca mountain should be pursued.
jasperrdm replies:
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Okay dr know,
Where should put the waste? Or how do we process it to make it safe?
doctor_know replies:
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I don't have the perfect answer to that. I just know that Yucca mountain is NOT better than what we do currently, so why spend billions on a solution that is not an improvement?
jasperrdm replies:
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I know enough from my high school science course there is hardly ever a perfect answer. So please give me your alternative answer? And if I remember correctly, Yucca was not a great answer either. But a way to put all the nuclear trash in one location, so if something went wrong, all the problems were at one location instead in several locations.