Us proposes central nuclear waste storage plant
US proposes central nuclear waste storage plant
A US government panel of nuclear experts has proposed a plan to build a central storage plant for spent nuclear fuel.
The blue ribbon commission established by President Barack Obama released an interim report on Friday on how to manage spent fuel rods from US nuclear power facilities.
The report noted a new strategy is needed as the government faces rising public interest in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
The commission called for building a central storage plant that can store spent nuclear fuel for a maximum of 100 years and to establish an independent entity to find a location for such a facility.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/30_15.html
I am so confused what a waste of money why is the government in charge of private utillitys waste!!!didn't this proccess take place and yuca mountain was selected and hundreds of millions were spent on yuca already.looks like a complete redux ..wait there's this
".Funding for the Yucca project is by congressional appropriation from the Nuclear Waste Fund, established by the NWPA,[x] with revenue from a one mil per kilowatt-hour fee charged on nuclear generation. The Nuclear Waste Fund has collected $35.4 billion in fees plus interest since 1983. About $10.8 billion has been spent on the Yucca Project. The fees are considered fuel costs and passed on to utility ratepayers."
http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/nrc-delays-judicial-review-of...
So it is done RIGHT!!
I am so confused what a waste of money why is the government in charge of private utillitys waste!!
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So it is done RIGHT!
The reason this is done by the Government is the same reason that the Government runs the Air Traffic Control System - so it is done right.
When commercial airline travel started to become big in the USA, there were those just as today, that didn't trust corporations. One big safety component of having commercial air travel is the Air Traffic Control system. Somebody has to manage the air travel in the skies. Why is this not an industry function. Because people who didn't trust corporations to do things correctly wanted to take it out of the hands of corporations and have the Government do it. However, the airline corporations still pay for it. Every time a commercial airliner flies, the FAA charges the airline a "landing fee". That is a cost of business for the airline that is passed along to the consumer, as it should be.
Again, a lot of nuclear power regulation is patterned after the airline industry ( including Price-Anderson ). We wanted to be sure the waste was stored properly, so we took that function out of the hands of the corporations and had the Government do it. So that the Government wouldn't be subsidizing the industry, the Government charges a fee for this service in the form of a tax on nuclear generated electricity which goes into the Nuclear Waste Fund.
Again, that is a cost of doing business for the company, and it is passed along to the consumer.
Banana Republic News
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Apparently this is intended to be under the radar. There is zero mainstream press coverage. News blackouts of vital USA news are infuriating. Such behavior is typical of banana republics. Unfortunately this appears to be an apt description of the present regime.
http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brc_draft_report_29jul2011_...
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) was formed by the Secretary of Energy to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle and recommend a new plan. It is co-chaired by Rep. Lee H. Hamilton and Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Other Commissioners are Mr. Mark H. Ayers, the Hon. Vicky A. Bailey, Dr. Albert Carnesale, Sen. Pete Domenici, Ms. Susan Eisenhower, Sen. Chuck Hagel, Mr. Jonathan Lash, Dr. Allison M. Macfarlane, Dr. Richard A. Meserve, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, Dr. Per Peterson, Mr. John Rowe, and Rep. Phil Sharp.
corporate welfare / socialized risk with privatized profit
Look at the history of law created to foster nukes and FOLLOW THE MONEY AND QUEST FOR CONTROL.
A hell of a way to boil water. A great way to create harvestable isotopes.
Atomic power:
the most expensive power source imagined,
a huge waste of public or private capital,
proliferation of nuclear military devices.
Nukes for civilian power are dead.
Nuclear Power ? No Thanks.
RIP nukes
WRONG!
proliferation of nuclear military devices.
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Actually commercial nuclear power has NOTHING to do with proliferation.
ALL the countries with nuclear weapons had nuclear weapons programs before they had commercial nuclear power programs. In fact, all but one (Pakistan), had the actual nuclear weapons built BEFORE their first nuclear power plant was built.
The USA is typical. The USA had its first nuclear weapon in hand in 1945. The first commercial nuclear power plant in the USA was Shippingport in 1957.
So saying that nuclear power begets nuclear weapons is ignoring the true direction of the arrow of time. Nuclear power plants can't cause nuclear weapons when the weapons precede the power plants.