As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises

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......“The rate-payer has paid for it,” said Michael Bauser, the associate general counsel of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry’s trade group. “The Department of Energy hasn’t done it, and now the taxpayer is paying for it a second time.”....

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How many people are aware of this? If you are not, you really should be. The gov. has neglected to pay costs of disposing of nuclear waste. The waste is piling up and up each year. The feds had pumped money into building a repository for the waste, but they seem to be way off schedule.
Did someone drop the ball here? Who forgot about this piling up waste? We need to know what is going to be done about this as we continue to see a rise in sickness around the country. Different cancers and diseases keep arising around areas of nuclear power plants. Why is this not being addressed? The potential size of this mounting problem is astronomical! Do the feds know what they are doing or do they not care?
Maybe if we funded things correctly instead of continuously asking for more war funding, we could solve the problem.
To top it all off, we as tax-payers are footing the bill the second time around as well. Is there anything they won't do to take money out of our pockets?

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I did not read the entire article, but I did rember reading something about Yucca Mountian, so I looked this up.

Yucca Mountain is a ridge line in Nye County, in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Nevada. It is composed of volcanic material (mostly tuff) ejected from a now-extinct caldera-forming supervolcano. Yucca Mountain is most notable as the site of the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository, a U.S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other radioactive waste. The Department of Energy was to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain Repository by January 31, 1998. However, there have been many delays, and the earliest feasible opening date is now in 2021.[1]

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Yucca mountain is part of the article Red Golem. It goes quite in depth about the current state of Yucca Mountain. You should check it out.

Palehorse
will do when I can, but just dont have the time right now.
Thanks for the information