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Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 | 5:26 p.m.
Sun coverage
WASHINGTON -- If nuclear waste is not going to be sent to Yucca Mountain, what to do with the desert site?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today asked the Government Accountability Office to begin consultation with the state of Nevada and federal agencies on other uses for Yucca Mountain.
Reid requests that the offices explore alternatives for the facility 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, including: The development and testing of renewable energy technology, training grounds for the military, arms control activities, a lab for underground experiments or a hide-away for the government in case of emergency.
“Now that forward progress on making Yucca Mountain the dump site for the nation’s nuclear waste has ended, we now need to keep this from being a total loss to the taxpayers and find a responsible way to use the Yucca facility,” Reid said. “Given the site’s location at the Nevada Test Site and Nevada’s vast clean energy resources, I believe we should begin by looking at alternative uses focused on our national security and clean energy efforts.”
Do an Environmental Impact Statement as required by Federal law, and then drop the new "bunker buster bombs" on the mountain above the Yucca Mountain tunnel to see if the bunker busters work.
Allegedly, Iran is full of similar tunnels for their nuclear program. We can safely assume that they have the same level of technological capability, in tunnel building, as does the United States.
So if the bunker busters won't collapse the Yucca Mountain Tunnel, then the government and the voters will know that we've got to work harder to stop the Iranian threat to our security.
If the bunker busters do work, then all will know that the Yucca Mountain tunnel wasn't safe after all.
The land should go back to the Western Shoshone Nation, from whom it was stolen.
LOL
Nobody will drive 90 miles to do work that can be done in downtown LV or at the NTS like the development and testing of renewable energy technology, training grounds for the military, arms control activities,a lab for underground experiments.
Doesn't Reid know what they do out at the Nevada TEST SITE - the NTS.
Oh and Yucca mountain can be a SECRET hide-away for the government in case of emergency.
Like nobody will know where they are
It is too late to claim new jobs and saved jobs for Yucca Mountain
Still LOL
It should go back to "Kennewick Man" whom it was stolen from 6000 years before the first "Native American" crossed the ice bridge and arrived in the "new world."
Put the incumbents in it and cement both ends.
The "TUNNEL TO NOWHERE"! Move over bridges!
Water de-salinazation plant?
How about a couple nuclear power plants?
Can we fill it with lawyers and politicians?
Underground nuclear bomb testing?
Yes Lisa, typical liberal nonsense. First yucca Mountain isn't dead, I think you know it and I know it. Its shutting down for political reasons, and so goes 1500 Nevada Jobs not to mention all the jobs created by having those workers in the state. In the remote chance it is shut down for good, we could be talking at the very least the loss of 25,000 jobs in this State. This is why Democrats like me , no longer support Harry Reid.
$38B wasted!
More than 23 years of work, documentation and so forth to this sad eventful day!
In a period of time when Nevada needs an alternate source of revenue and jobs to provide to our children, this is going to be shut down for stupid ass reasons!
None of which address the real world issues of today, nor do they even consider tomorrow's needs.
I do hope that when we shut it down and close it off, that bodies of Dirty Harry will be found eons from now and the stench from his rotting body will remind people of the same stench that Dirty Harry said he has smell from the visitors to the nation's capital.
Good-bye to Dirty Harry in November of this year, I am eager, so eager to practice voting against him, his mini-me, Rory, and to the Clark County government nuclear manager, who by all rights should be supporting this, but went on the record as not supporting this and she is still on the payroll for the county in dealing with real world issues related to nuclear energy? Yeah, right!
We need to remove every Clark County Commissioner who can not see the future for Nevada and its citizens. We need this new science for our children and for this state to create jobs and build a better economy.
Now since New Mexico is coming out to assume this billion dollar industry, they are laughing at the idiots, such as Dirty Harry, Rory Reid, Susan Brager(D) and the others who don't have the wisdom to see the benefits of this new industry and what it can mean for Nevada & Las Vegas!
I am voting only for the Independent American Party of Nevada candidates this year. There is one person, a career military man, named Jeff Durbin USAF Ret., who is running for the office of Clark County Commissioner who on his website talked about his support of nuclear energy and the benefits for us here in Clark County in terms of economy and the environment. This is a person with a real vision for the future.
In addition many of the scientists at UNLV and UNR are getting behind this person in his campaign as a Clark County Commissioner. Also, the vast majority of educators in Southern Nevada are supporting this person as well, as he supports them and they both share the belief that Nevada must grow with industries of which we can have our children go to college and learn to become scientists and engineers and then to be able to find employment here in their home states.
They would learn it is better to be educated than to live on tips for their entire lives and the rewards of being educated would benefit this state and Las Vegas tremendously!
MSgt JEff Durbin is running as an Independent American Party candidate and I am supporting him all the way, he has a vision for Nevada & Las Vegas and it does not involve working for tips when you are 68 years old!
I'm still wondering why the Sun is letting Vorenious hawk himself in postings. Doesn't he know that he was already outed as the name behind that screen name?
"Vorenious" IS Jeff Durbin.
http://twitter.com/Vorenious
http://digg.com/users/Vorenious/friends/...
http://www.reteaparty.com/members/voreni...
Thanks for the amusing mental image this phrase gave me: "a hide-away for the government in case of emergency." I bet many readers would like to make a list of whom from the government they would like to hide away there.
What makes it funny is that after all this hysteria over very low levels of radiation, levels likely to be less than a hundredth of natural background, over a million years, there is now a proposal to put government employees in this mountain, to keep them safe? This type of rock, because it is so porous and fractured, exhales radon gas, a naturally occuring radioactive gas, into its tunnels. So the proposal is to keep the public safe by not doing a repository here, and instead seriously expose government executives to radiation inside this very same mountain?
Strike while the irony is hot!
Maybe Harry would like to take the big profits he made from suspect real estate investments and use the money to build condos, at Yucca Mt., for the DEM/REP politicians that will be sent packing in November.
Let's round up the entire useless, self-serving, lobbyist beholden, pension-waiting, perk-laden, clock-punching Congress and seal them inside Yucca for all eternity.
If you build it they will come..uhhh vote democraps outta office.
Give tours to Smelly Tourists! "Shovel Ready Harry" can be the Greeter and Tour Guide.
I hope all of you who are upset with Reid will put your vote where your mouth is. Talking isn't good enough. There is early voting that makes a trip to show your support so easy. VOTE!
Give us a break.
If Harry was serious about these ridiculous ideas, we would have heard about them before, and if he was worth anything to Nevada, they would have been in the budget! Or maybe he's sincere, but just wasn't competent enough to ensure such plans were in place.
The damage is done, these thousands of high-tech science and engineering jobs are leaving the state, leaving more empty homes and offices behind them. And nuclear waste will be stuck sound the country, a safety and security liability that the whole nation will see passed on to their electric bills.
Makes you wonder if all Harry's "green jobs" talk might be just the same kind of hoax... Hmm, d'ya think?
Good work, Harry. Keep those great ideas coming.
Great comment from abevanluik!
Harry's "bright idea" about the hide-away proves, without a doubt, that Reid doesn't, never did, and never will understand anything about Yucca Mountain.
Hey Harry why can't we continue to collect the waste from other states and charge them a fee until we recyle there waste. That means build a recyling center .Take care of our school systems All School systems. Than whats left over give back to the people of NEVADA.
How about something that will make money or filling a need like STORING NUCLEAR WASTE THAT NO ONE WANTS TO STORE!
I guess is that it will be turned into a storage facility for political prisoners.
Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors. This emphasis reflects both the political difficulties of passing a climate bill in an election year and a shift from his once cautious embrace of nuclear energy.
Where do reid and obama think their going to put all the waste generated by these new nuclear plants?
We can store all nuke waste in hollywood
What....NO CASINO???
blah blah blah......your out of here harry.
New Gitmo
Harry thinks we should use it as an "underground hide-away for the government in case of emergency."
HAHAHAH..he must be worried!!