I admit it I am an anti-nuke person….why make all that discharge when there are so many better ways to generate energy–wind, solar, tidal, etc–

I bring this up because that idiot Donny has signed a new nuke waste thing that could well effect my state of Mississippi.

The Trump administration has quietly narrowed its search for new nuclear waste sites to five states. The Energy Department on Tuesday said it has struck preliminary agreements with Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho to study whether they could host long-term storage facilities—so-called “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses”—for spent nuclear fuel “in exchange for federal help developing nuclear energy,” per the AP. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the five were picked from 28 applications from 26 states, reports the Hill.

• Nuclear power has enjoyed bipartisan backing, but a permanent answer for high-level waste has eluded Washington for decades, with the long-planned Yucca Mountain site in Nevada stalled amid fierce local resistance. (Indeed, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto hailed the news by saying, “I am glad to see the Trump administration take a step toward acknowledging what Nevadans have known for years: Yucca Mountain is dead.”)
• More than 95,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste is currently stored at nuclear plants and former nuclear sites nationwide. “The new storage sites would move the radioactive material away from population centers, fault lines, and flood plains,” per the AP.
• In addition to the waste sites, the campuses would handle uranium enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing, and fuel fabrication, and may also host advanced reactor deployment, power generation, and data centers.
• The Energy Department estimates the campuses could generate as much as $10 billion in state and local tax revenues.

“Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses”–seriously?  Put a pleasingly neutral name to something that could devastate–it is what politicians do.

Some of the waste has a half life of 200+ years….so the states will be saddled with this crap forever…..

I do not think this is a good idea for any state.  Here is a better idea…..screw nuclear, stop wasting money on something this dangerous and spend the money where it will do the most good–in wind, solar, tidal, etc.

Just a thought

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