Reid Doped Slapped Again

From the Pahrump Valley Times: Nye County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen Monday repeated accusations quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal recently in which he called U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., a hypocrite over proposed nuclear waste shipments to the Nevada National Security Site.
That exchange occurred at a meeting of the NNSS advisory board. The newly-appointed county commission liaison on nuclear waste was quoted as saying, “what we’re concerned with is the sheer hypocrisy of Senator Reid, who said Yucca Mountain isn’t safe but is OK with putting this fissile material 40 feet underground. The hypocrisy stinks.”
The U.S. Department of Energy announced last month it was preparing to ship containers of highly radioactive, bomb-usable nuclear material for burial at the Nevada National Security Site. The 403 welded steel cannisters will contain uranium 233 co-mingled with uranium 235, atom-splitting material with byproducts that can be used to make a bomb. They require heavy shielding and are hauled only with remote-control cranes.
Shipments are scheduled to start this spring or summer and last through August 2014. The material isn’t as hot as the high-level spent nuclear fuel that would’ve been stored at Yucca Mountain, but the uranium measures 250 to 300 rem, as much as 1,500 times more radioactive than the low level waste usually buried at NNSS, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site.
The half life of the material is about 704 million years.
“This is not bomb grade material. The county commission should understand the difference between 403 canisters and 70,000 tons,” Reid’s spokesman said in response to Schinhofen’s comments.
During the last commission meeting, Schinhofen told the board, “Just so you all know the U-233, 235 issue is not something I’m letting pass by and we are working on trying to get it addressed. Senator Reid’s only answer is we should know the difference between 77,000 tons and 44 canisters. How that answers the question where weapons grade material is OK for 40 feet underground and Yucca Mountain is unsafe is unclear to me.”  http://pvtimes.com/news/schinhofen-blasts-reid-for-hypocrisy-over-shipments/
Lying/Coward/Senile Reid just doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.  If Reid was consistent, he would be opposed to all nuclear items being allowed into Nevada from outside sources, but he's not.  We are still the dumping ground for nuclear items and now that Reid/Obama has shut down Yucca Mountain, killing 10,000 jobs or more, we get no benefit.