US energy secretary visits Yucca Mountain

[Marlin]

US energy secretary visits Yucca Mountain


http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-US-energy-secretary-visits-Yucca-Mountain-2803177.html

[GLW]

from the article:

...Perry said the meeting was the first step in the process of talking to stakeholders following a presidential budget request to restart licensing proceedings for the repository...




[youtube height=150 width=275]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_Qqnq8pI8[/youtube]

in a nutshell: Yucca is the high level waste disposal correspondent to commercial fusion,...


also:


I'll be reprobate before I'd let Harry Reid double back and find some way to take credit for bringing the "right" Yucca Mountain back to Nevada, along with the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars,...


nah, not happening,...

okay,...


your better option began with studies in 1978, partial construction and certification through the 2000's and ignominious cancellation in 2011,...


that would be about 33 years and about 100 billion dollars, and still nothing, and now essentially needing a clean slate of new funding minus the excavation costs, which amounted to 10% (~10BUSD) of the total spent funding to date,...


WCS can be operational in 5 years or less,...


and then, the little "abandoned" ISFISIs scattered across the fruited plain can be consolidated to one, much more secure, facility,...


the re certification process for casks can be become a standard, continuous routine implemented by proficient persons working on a constant processing line, with all the economies of scale so entailed,....


places like Minnesota, which has strict rules imposed on operating nukes concerning on-site storage, can perhaps become more amenable to new nukes as those on-site storage issues become a non sequitur,...


and currently West Texas (time, place, culture), wants the work,...


it is a great long term jobs opportunity for younger nukeworkers,...


you and others can stick with dinosaur premised big government programs as you wish,...


I'll go with something a bit more viable and able to occur within my lifetime,...

no, we should get on with above ground, consolidated, interim storage,...


the technology is done and proven, the licensing is straight forward, the means and methods are a known and definable quantity,...


as of now: Yucca is a new hole in the ground; licensing, certification, impact studies et al, they all have to be redone,...


and should be redone and needs to be redone; Oak Ridge let out the contracts to remove electrical, monitoring, HVAC and other components and systems back in 2012, they've pretty much gutted all the certified systems inside Yucca, it's a hole in the ground, but just a hole,....


it's a money pit, Nevada has sucked enough money out of the public coffers for a pipe dream Nevada never intended to deliver,...


fool me once,...


WCS in Texas (or a similar site) is the best current, cost effective, interim, scenario,...


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bad idea, Yucca was a money pit for nigh on 20 years,...


resurrecting Yucca will only surfeit the money spent on a political wagering chip which is demonstrably proven to be forfeit upon the whim of the next POTUS' political pandering,...


let Yucca stay dead,...


there are better options,...

[Marlin]

from the article:

...Perry said the meeting was the first step in the process of talking to stakeholders following a presidential budget request to restart licensing proceedings for the repository...




[youtube height=150 width=275]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_Qqnq8pI8[/youtube]

Clearly they have not consulted with you. 

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