re: #385 Spare O’Lake

Yucca Mtn.
Do you have evidence of actions he has taken to show he is in favour of massive expansion of the nuke program?

Well, he certainly nominated several people into high office that are encouraging/planning the use of more nuclear energy. Also, anti-nuke organizations criticized Obama when he was a Senator and then a candidate because, get this, he wouldn’t take up their anti-nuke cause.

Yucca Mtn is in NV, and the Nevadans apparently don’t want nuclear “waste” shipped there because they elected a Senator, Reid, who explicitly campaigned on stopping it/slowing it down. Reid then became majority leader, and thus can effectively implement the wishes of his constituency.

It’s called Representative Democracy, and it’s what we do down here.

And finally, as I mention always when Yucca Mtn. is brought up, those who are truly looking at the future of nuclear energy know that the real benefit would be to not dump the “waste” in a mountain somewhere but to use it, because the “waste” is actually a more potent form of nuclear energy potential than the original Uranium. However, to make use of it will require a new generation of reactors, and that involves manipulating highly radioactive isotopes, such a Plutonium, and thus necessitates the highest of safety and security procedures.