Comments on: Bush Administration Goes Nuclear http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3465 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: R http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3465&cpage=1#comment-1024 R Mon, 02 May 2005 20:46:43 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3465#comment-1024 None of the waste will ever be "permanently" buried at Yucca mountain. The plans for the repository envisage keeping it "open" for several hundred years. There is too much energy in the "waste" to throw it away. Yucca Mountain is just a temporary site till the political will develops to support reprocessing the spent fuel. Even the fission products are too valuable to throw away... None of the waste will ever be “permanently” buried at Yucca mountain. The plans for the repository envisage keeping it “open” for several hundred years. There is too much energy in the “waste” to throw it away. Yucca Mountain is just a temporary site till the political will develops to support reprocessing the spent fuel. Even the fission products are too valuable to throw away…

]]> By: kevin vranes http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3465&cpage=1#comment-1023 kevin vranes Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:56:44 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3465#comment-1023 I'm all for nuclear, but the irony is thick. On google news right now, under "US News" are three headlines: 1- "Briton found guilty of aiding terrorism" 2- "President Bush Touts Nuclear Power in Energy Plan" 3- "US Says More Terrorist Groups Are Seeking Deadliest Weapons" No doubt it's a very solvable engineering question whether we produce lots of new nuclear without the more worrisome byproducts. The real question is, will we bother? The follow up is, once we've gone to more nuclear power, will the feds do anything to try to store the byproducts securely? I’m all for nuclear, but the irony is thick. On google news right now, under “US News” are three headlines:

1- “Briton found guilty of aiding terrorism”

2- “President Bush Touts Nuclear Power in Energy Plan”

3- “US Says More Terrorist Groups Are Seeking Deadliest Weapons”

No doubt it’s a very solvable engineering question whether we produce lots of new nuclear without the more worrisome byproducts. The real question is, will we bother? The follow up is, once we’ve gone to more nuclear power, will the feds do anything to try to store the byproducts securely?

]]> By: Crumb Trail http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3465&cpage=1#comment-1025 Crumb Trail Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:51:46 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3465#comment-1025 <strong>Big Wednesday</strong> See Bush Administration Goes Nuclear at Prometheus, which excerpts an FT story and the Bush speech it was about that clearly stated the intent to promote nuclear power, something that Prometheus had been expecting. I suspect that we all... Big Wednesday

See Bush Administration Goes Nuclear at Prometheus, which excerpts an FT story and the Bush speech it was about that clearly stated the intent to promote nuclear power, something that Prometheus had been expecting. I suspect that we all…

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