I have been rather harsh on the Pahrump Valley Times, but I have to give credit to them for running several articles on a Federal Appeals Court case while the Las Vegas media has ignored it.
From the PVT: Federal appeals judges indicated Wednesday they were troubled over
the licensing shutdown of Yucca Mountain, but they struggled whether
the nuclear waste project might be too dead to order it revived.
Both
sides faced sharp questioning in the case that pits the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission against plaintiffs that include South Carolina
and Washington state that hold millions of gallons of nuclear waste
with no promise of a place to send it ever since the Nevada repository
plan was terminated.
Nye County, which views the Yucca project as
a potential economic boom if it were to be built on the edge of the
Nevada Test Site, also is a plaintiff in the case. Darrell Lacy,
director of the Nye County Nuclear Waste Project Office, was in court
alongside Robert Andersen, the county’s Washington, D.C. attorney.
The
case before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia is the last remaining legal challenge to the Obama
administration that began closing out the program in 2009 and set out
to develop a new waste strategy.
In a courtroom crowded with
lawyers, industry representatives and former Yucca Mountain managers,
Washington state Assistant Attorney General Andrew Fitz argued the NRC
acted improperly to close out repository licensing last year and should
be ordered to resume it.
A federal law still in effect requires
the agency to complete the license review and ultimately issue a safety
decision, Fitz said.
The NRC, he said, “chose to abdicate its duties. The NRC’s duty is to comply with the law.”
With
$10 million left over in a repository budget, the NRC could resume the
license case for some period of time and release key reports containing
its staff’s views on whether the Yucca site might be safe, Fitz said.
http://pvtimes.com/news/judges-unsure-in-yucca-appeal/
When Coward/Crazy/Demented Harry Reid and suck up to Reid, President Obama closed Yucca, they did it illegally and without any clear reason other than they hate nuclear power. There is no intellectual reason why Yucca cannot be used to store nuclear fuel there. Yucca has been shown to be safe and Nevada already holds low level nuclear power in other dump sites, so there is no intellectual reason to close the site down. Dementia plagued and coward Harry Reid thinks people will not come to Las Vegas if we open up Yucca but of course the dementia of Reid shows that he forgot that atomic bombs were set off above ground just north and west of Las Vegas and we still get 30,000,000+ visitors to Las Vegas..
So, let's hope that the judges in Washington DC can see the errors of Reid and Obama and order Yucca reopened. It is the only intelligent decision to be made.
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4 hours ago
90 miles from Vegas. Potential terrorism target. Trucks with waste travelling all over our state. We produce ZERO nuclear waste in Nevada. Potential earthquakes. Not in my backyard. Intellectual reasons! Right there!
ReplyDelete90 miles is a long way from Las Vegas. They can build an airport and they can fly the fuel rods in. After all we have nuclear bombs flying 24/7 above the U.S., and we have not had 1 plane crash The storage area is protected to a 9.5 earthquake, which has not happened in Nevada since man has been here.
DeleteAs far as trucks, I would be against that so that is why they should fly the nuclear rods into Yucca. Sorry, but there are ways to get around these problems. Obviously, above ground atomic and I think nuclear bomb testing has not hurt Nevada (well, except for those 3 legged lizards that hang around the area and that everyone who drives by the sites loses their hair for a month)
Well, there was the unfortunate cast of "The Conqueror" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049092/
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