re: #271 albusteve

whoa!…good news for a change!

Judges rule Obama can’t close Yucca Mountain nuclear dump

Three administrative judges within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled last week that Congress had designated Yucca Mountain in 1987 to receive highly toxic waste from the Savannah River Site on the S.C.-Georgia border and other complexes that built atom bombs during the Cold War.

The panel found that President Barack Obama and Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a nuclear physicist, lacked the power to close the Yucca repository unilaterally; doing so, it ruled, would require another act of Congress.

BO, Chu, and the DOA will probably fight this forever, tying up the issue indefinately…but it’s clear that states and operators are getting screwed otherwise with the feds trying to break their contracts

Read more: [Link: www.mcclatchydc.com…]

So what happens when all that stuff leaks into the water supply or some other nasty consequence nobody’s thought of yet?