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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy -- no nuke waste problem, just doesn't exist ....
> > >On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, David Beorn enlightened us, one and
> > > all, with this unbelievable bullshit :
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> > >The power plant I worked at has stored ALL of the spent fuel on-site in
> > >the containment building and therefore there has been NO need for waste
> > >disposal of this type.
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Court's ruling to press ahead on nuclear waste site not a setback, senators say
Copyright (c) 1996 Nando.net, Copyright (c) 1996 Reuter Information Service
WASHINGTON (Jul 24, 1996 6:29 p.m. EDT) - Nevada's senators said Wednesday a
court decision ordering the federal government to start accepting waste from
the nuclear industry should not hamper their fight to keep the spent fuel out
of their state.
"As far as we're concerned, it shouldn't have any effect on the pending
legislation. They are separate issues," said an aide to Sen. Harry Reid, who
is fighting a nuclear industry-backed bill to set up an interim storage
facility for the spent fuel at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles from Las Vegas.
Reid and fellow Nevada Democrat Sen. Richard Bryan managed to postpone a vote
on the bill until next week.
"With this agreement, we have just gained another week and as we have said
all along, every day that goes by is a day in our favor," Bryan said in a
statement, which also noted that he and Reid had threatened to keep the
Senate "up all night" Thursday with debate on the bill.
Reid and Bryan also denied that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit decision was a setback. On Tuesday the court said the
government must start accepting the waste by 1998, but it did not specify how
the Energy Department should meet the deadline.
"The court ruling says nothing about Nevada and nothing about temporary
storage," Reid said. "Nuclear waste can, and should, remain safely where it
is at the reactor sites until a sound disposal system is developed."
A 1982 law required the Energy Department to dispose of the nuclear industry's
spent fuel starting in January 1998, but the department did not expect to have
a storage facility ready until 2010.
Some utilities said they will run out of space for spent fuel at their own
plants before 2010. They said storing the growing pile of waste could cost them
millions of dollars while they have paid more than $12 billion in fees to the
government since 1982 to build a permanent dump.
The White House threatened to veto the bill for interim storage at Yucca, which
also was the only site under active consideration as a permanent dump for the
spent fuel.
Besides opposition from Nevada, the bill was opposed by most environmental
groups who said it would override many environmental protections and expose
millions of people to risks during the fuels' transport to Nevada.
Michael Mariotte of the watchdog group Nuclear Information Research Service said
the government could satisfy the court decision "simply by taking title to the
waste at the facilities. The decision's not arguing in favor of any particular
solution."
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> Nope. No waste problem at all. Never was one, never will be one.
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> The tax payers will solve it.
It just dumbfounds me that those poor, ingnorant fucks in Nevada are all upset
about this nuke waste problem that just DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST.
David Beorn, could you please move out there enlighten them and stop them from
wasting our money fighting a problem that just DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST ?
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