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U.S. Department of Energy
Yucca Mountain is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Published Friday, April 17, 2009 | 1:06 p.m.
Updated Friday, April 17, 2009 | 1:06 p.m.
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WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama submits his 2010 budget request with actual numbers next month, it is expected to show a substantial funding cut for the Yucca Mountain project, a trade publication reports today.
Obama will cut Yucca Mountain to just $198 million, which is nearly $100 million less than what the program is operating on for 2009, according to the New Nuclear Build Monitor.
The reduced budget is no surprise after Obama, in his budget outlook earlier this year, said he would “scale back” plans for the nuclear repository north of Las Vegas — signaling the end of Yucca Mountain.
Obama had campaigned in Nevada against the waste dump and pledged it would not be built.
Yet the cut would be severe and a great departure from Bush administration budgets, which at one point sought four times that amount to develop the nuclear waste repository.
It has been understood that Obama would provide enough funding this coming fiscal year to support the Energy Department's Yucca Mountain application pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions as alternatives are sought.
The trade publication reports that of the $198 million, $5 million will be made available to the previously announced blue ribbon commission that will develop alternatives to the storage site.
Harry, I thought you said Obama was going to "zero" out Yucca. Just like "Burress" will not be seated. You talk out of your @$$ so much you are beginning to look like Pelosi.
"Blue Ribbon" commission, they should spend the money on Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and give the beer away at county fair's, that way the taxpayers would at least get something in return.
There was an article in the L.A. Times about how the Yucca builders were trying to figure out some symbols they could put on a permanent sign (one that could last 10,000 years) so that if some future explorers stumble across the site, they would be warned to STAY AWAY, or DON'T DIG HERE, because what's buried is deadly (eg. nuclear waste). Nobody knows what language people will be speaking in the future, and we can't rely on records to warn people, because records tend to get lost. So we have to figure out some picturegrams to put on a permanent plaque to put on top of the site after the radioactive waste is buried and the site is sealed. "Scotty, what do you make of these crazy symbols. Mr. Spock, we need you to beam down with a universal translator."
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President Clinton supported budgets of $750 million/year in the 1990s. Please stop stating that Yucca Mountain is Bush's project - it is a national law passed by Congress and is not a plaything of each President to decide whether or not it should proceed.
Hopefully when the full Congressional budget process is vetted, Yucca Mountain will regain its lawful budget. Or Congress can change the law as McCain suggests and refund the $25 billion dollars to all of the people who have paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund.
On the Friends of the US Chamber website, they have a live feed of people's opinions on the budget:
http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/tak...