and in other news: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_sc_sc_nuclear_waste.html

SC county sues feds over nuclear waste decision

2/22/2010 9:52:24 AM

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"State senators on Wednesday unanimously signed onto a bill that would require the state's electric utilities to put money earmarked for a national nuclear waste repository instead into a state fund until the federal site begins operating. The state would use interest from that to get its own long-term storage plan operating by 2012."

I have to say that I don't agree with this approach. Starving the federal government of the waste fund payments does not sound like a good idea. Unfortunately, this kind of problem needs a large and cohesive solution applied to it. The total amount of the waste is not very large, but the more different solutions we apply to the waste, the larger the risk that there will ever be a release.

A small number of facilities pioneered by our national labs could burn down the most dangerous waste from most of the entire world. But requiring individual nations with a small nuclear program (and heaven forbid SC) to bury the stuff with their own solution sounds disastrous.

2/22/2010 11:32:48 AM

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"What changed was the introduction of an Administration that is nuclear friendly and listens to the nuclear industry when they talk about what they need and you claim it was a sudden change. It wasn't. It was talked about for a long time."

The last administration was also quite nuclear friendly. Do you think all the recent applications were just whipped together in the last year? Not really...

2/22/2010 1:45:18 PM

^^^ I was expecting that any day now. There's been a huge stink about that down here.

2/22/2010 9:22:12 PM