House to vote next week to move ahead with Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste dump

[Marlin]

House to vote next week to move ahead with Yucca Mountain as nuclear waste dump


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/house-to-vote-next-week-to-move-ahead-with-yucca-mountain-as-nuclear-waste-dump

[PostShiftSupLife]

This would be a huge win, hopefully it goes somewhere.

[GLW]

This would be a huge win, hopefully it goes somewhere.

no, not really,...

[Marlin]

Bipartisan majority for pro-Yucca Mountain bill

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Bipartisan-majority-for-pro-Yucca-Mountain-bill-1105187.html

[Sadawg04]

They need to do something otherwise they are gonna have to cough up more money for more storage for DWPFs canisters.

[Marlin]

They need to do something otherwise they are gonna have to cough up more money for more storage for DWPFs canisters.

   I still favor liquid metal reactors at DOE labs that can use expended fuel and excess plutonium from weapons treaties for fuel. But so far I am the only one I know of thinking this way. Commercial use yes but not DOE which could use it for power, experimentation, advance SMR technology, and waste processing. This would reduce long lived waste, provide security for proliferation concerns and power for increasing power demands on these sites. The new super computer (Summit) that will come on line next year will have a 15 MW peak load.



https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/summit/

[SloGlo]

   ...The new super computer (Summit) that will come on line next year will have a 15 MW peak load.

knot a problem, lite off an udder gas turbine too give the greenies sum thing bout witch to beach.

[fiveeleven]

Even trying to maintain a half full perspective - my personal take on the situation is the mountain rising up from the ashes is a ploy to fend off or delay the current and upcoming wave of lawsuits. I would think with all things considered, nary a cask will depart its current home state location and be pursuant of Horace Greeleys vision for at least 20 years. Before the sea lawyer brigade chimes - yes the Greeley vision would apply only to those facilities which are to the east of the mountain. Ya cant go west iffin yaint at least a tad east.