Fuck you and your nuclear waste. We don’t want it. Take it somewhere else or leave it at your place (where it is now), but we don’t fucking want it.
Lying to the public and doing an end-around on the country’s legal procedures IS NOT good government, IMO, especially when doing so puts the public at risk.
Bunch of asslicking monkey fucking troglodytes. I hope everyone involved finds that everyone they know shows as much care for them as they have for us: none.
I don’t really understand the issue or the outrage. Are you objecting to it being transported without notifying the public? How is it safer to let everyone know before transporting it? Or is there some specific concern about the security of this storage facility?
So you’re saying what? That the nuclear waste should be stored in a populated area, rather than in some remote desert repository in the back of beyond where nobody lives?
Your link seems to refer to weapons grade plutonium, which I can assure you, is yours just as much as it’s mine.
If your concern is waste material from nuclear reactors, my understanding is that fewer people have died from the entire 50 year history of US Nuclear Power than die every year from Solar, or Coal.
Safer anyway… since weapons-grade plutonium is predominantly Pu-239 (>93% if USAF, >95% if USN), it’s not going to be terribly radioactive versus other radioactive materials such as high level waste.
Plus, in all likelihood, the site “70 miles from Las Vegas” is the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS, previously the National Test Site), which is well guarded, and AFAIK, geologically stable. It’s where the US set off hundreds of nuclear tests from the 1950s through early 1990s, and not shockingly, where the Yucca Mountain waste repository is as well. In addition, Area 51/Groom Lake is part of the NNSS as well.
This sounds very much like a couple of governors getting in a dumb-ass pissing contest rather than anything based in any sort of realistic fears.
The article is light on details, but I don’t think they are talking about ‘nuclear waste’. You seem to be relating ’ weapons-grade plutonium’ with ‘nuclear waste’, but they are two different things. Just an FYI.
As for your general point, I have to say I disagree with you. Sorry. I lived in Nevada. I have friends that worked at or work at the Test Site. Nevada is a perfectly good place to store actual nuclear waste (not to mention secure storage of basically weapons grade materials, which is actually what your article is talking about), as long as it’s done right. I know you and many of your fellow state citizens don’t agree with that, but sometimes you have to suck it up. It’s the least bad option…certainly a hell of a lot better than what we’ve been doing, which is to store the stuff in-situ at the nuclear power plants where it’s more vulnerable, costs more to try and support and protect and has a higher probability of leaking and causing issues in more populated areas. Reality sucks sometimes.
