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StumbleLETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Hasn’t Nevada sacrificed enough for Washington?
Friday, March 5, 2010 | 2:02 a.m.
I am a native Las Vegan, born in 1934.
We Nevadans have sacrificed enough of our state for our federal government: the Test Site near Las Vegas for nuclear testing, including aboveground experiments during the 1950s, and the bombing range near Tonopah are just some examples.
Although the Obama administration is withdrawing the application to build a high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, the Las Vegas Sun reported Thursday that some states and cities still want the federal government to press on and develop the dump.
Nevada does not have a nuclear power plant, and we do not want to be the dumping ground for other states’ nuclear waste.
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It was NEVER a sacrifice to have Yucca.
The NRC review was showing Yucca is safe.
Yucca helps our energy security.
Yucca was providing 1000s of good jobs in the Depression Las vegas ecomony.
Clean coal, nuclear is safe, look at all the jobs are being wasted not opening Yucca Mtn. You gotta know how to handle the rattlesnake, so you won't get bit....
Any body else got a few?
It is true that there is a very small danger in waste at Yucca Mountain but remember that currently waste is stored at the nuclear plant where it was created. I anyone would look at a map of the United States you would see that most of the power plants are located in the densly populated east. If by chance there were some major incident at one of those sites, the deaths and contamination would be devistating. There is no one around Yucca Mountain for miles.
The core economy of Las Vegas is tourism. An accident at Yucca mountain or an accident near Las Vegas while transporting nuclear waste to Yucca mountain makes for a dying town of 2 million people. Attracting a terrorist attack is also a factor. The risk is too high.
I don't think there's too many people visiting Chernobyl anymore. A much bigger accident than what might occur here, but people were forced to evacuate for up to 200 miles from that city. Wanna chance it?
It appears that the only argument left for the Yucca haters is to make doom and gloom scenarios about the transporting of the nuclear waste.
Think about it... The waste is in solid form and is encased in two foot thick containers that would withstand a direct blast with Willie's head. (And there is not anything harder that that)
Oh, wait a minute. Willie and his group of Yucca haters have poisoned minds with the thought of mushroom clouds exploding all around us.
Willie Tanner "Attracting a terrorist attack is also a factor. The risk is too high."
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So Willie Tanner believes hig level waste above the surface at hundreds of site on our rivers and lakes is safer then burying the waste inside Yucca mountain.
That is the "sound science" that Willie Tanner can believe in.
Sorry LOL
"The core economy of Las Vegas is tourism. "
read
"The only economy of Las Vegas is tourism."
Bingo! When tourism is clearly not paying all of the state's bills, why not turn the national nuclear waste issue into a NEW economy for Nevada? You get PEOPLE, who you would pay MONEY to in exchange for moving the waste, keeping the waste safe, and perhaps reprocessing it one day. These are called jobs. That's J-O-B-S.
Talk about a stimulus package! At least this one has already been paid for by the people who use nuclear power. If we don't get it, some other state will! A state that probably doesn't need it as badly.
The notion that Yucca Mountain would increase terrorist risks to Las Vegas is laughable. For the impacts terrorists are after, the strip itself would be the target.
Waste would be made safe and secured against attack at Yucca Mountain, so if you're really afraid of terrorists causing nuclear havoc by bombing or stealing nuclear materials, the solution is safe, secure, remote Yucca Mountain, not storage sites scattered across the country.
But Willie wasn't really serious about addressing a real issue, was he? He just wanted to say "Boo!" and see if he could scare as many fools as Harry has.
If we trust the government with transporting and storing nuclear waste why don't we trust the government with health care reform?
Openrange.
Ha! We DO!
Maybe you're one of those partisans who thinks politics is a sport where you form teams. Wrong thinking, friend. Health care reform and a nuclear waste solution for are TWO things government needs to get serious about and quit playing political games with. Agreed?
It is best to keep all the nuclear waste in 1 location for environmental safety and security but yet in a dry location' In Nevada or not.
Hasn't Nevada sacrificed enough for Washington?
Yes it has... We have given Harry Reid to the D.C. crowd for what, About 50 years or so???
Nevada should have been paid a royalty for that great service...
"Think about it... The waste is in solid form and is encased in two foot thick containers that would withstand a direct blast with Willie's head. (And there is not anything harder that that)"
If it's safely encased in solid form, there's no reason to transport it, is there? Keep it where it is.
I stand corrected:
"Think about it... The waste is in solid form and is encased in two foot thick containers that would withstand a direct blast with Willie's head. (And there is not anything harder that that)"
Yes there is, I have been told...
Kevin Sandoval aka ksand99 head is completely solid and just might crack a two foot thick container...
Who said anything about soiled waste???
If the waste is safe, as you claim, Larry... why move it?
Answer the question.
What sacrifice? Simply got #9 billion in government support for Yucca, and then refused to continue. That's a sacrificie????
Yucca is MOOT!
Rhooster....
Bitterness will get you no where! Brace-up my little friend. Don't be so "fowl mouthed." I realize it comes with your make-up, but rise above your station in life....
Flap your wings instead of your mouth & move forward...
You're actually lucky.....you might have been born a rat or a snake....maybe a skunk.....
Speaking of skunks......
What's that smell coming from your post! Don't Rhoosters ever take a bath?
"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good,"
Lying republicans, taking Reid's words out-of-context. Reid spoke for several minutes, yet all they can type is the first dozen words or so?
Maybe it's because they know that if they quoted the context, they would agree with Reid that we're clearly on our way to recovery.
Respected publications like the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Bloomberg News reported that as many as 75,000 people were expected to have lost their jobs in February. Fortunately it turned out to be much lower than that. Only those Republicans who would root for failure would refuse to acknowledge any progress at all. Senator Reid knows there is much more work to do, which is why he led passage last week of the latest in a series of jobs bills that will create or save more than a million jobs.
We're on our way to recovery and republicans
don't like it.
They know Obama will be re-elected in 2012.
HA,HA,HA.
"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good," Reid said. "Unemployment rate around America has not changed. Prognosticators thought it would go up and it has not."
Rhooster!! I thought Obama was working for the SEIU, NOW...
If Harry Reid wasn't already finished in politics, he soon will be.
Celebrating the loss of 36,000 jobs in the American economy in February may be one of the most clueless political statements ever seen...
OBAMA---2012. NO PROBLEM.
HARRY REID WILL BEAT ANY REPUBLICAN OR
TEABAGGER FOOL THAT THEY THROW AT HIM.
"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good," Reid said. "Unemployment rate around America has not changed. Prognosticators thought it would go up and it has not."
I'll take that as a tacit admission that you were taking the Senator's remarks out-of-context. I shouldn't have to call you out to provoke honesty, Larry. Honesty should be your default position.
Poor old Rhooster.....
Here's some good advice....As I said earlier......keep flapping your wings instead of your mouth.... That's all you have left..........
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teamster.....
You hit the nail on the head!
Yep! Harry will be around for six more years!
I wonder what office "Baby Tark" will run for next time around.... "Sorry Sue" has about much chance to win as "blockhead Gibbons" does.....slim and none & slim left town last week with the circus....
Lowden takes a 51% to 38% lead over Reid...
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Sue Lowden, ex-chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, with a 51% to 38% lead on Reid.
larry is desperate.
republican polls are meaningless.
Scary Sue is Nevada's Leona Helmsley.
She took a $200,000 bonus after firing 100+ workers from her casino.
That sounds like something all those corrupt Wall Street bankers would do!
Lets take a $3000.000 federal budget bonus building safe nuclear warehouse. Make a money gift for government. I'm washed-up to donate ostentatious donation.
What about all of the toxic waste which is openly dumped and burned outdoors at Area 51 ? No one is saying anything about that now are they?
Liberals like to name call and spin, but Sue Lowden increased her lead over Harry Reid...
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Sue Lowden, ex-chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, with a 51% to 38% lead on Harry Reid.
It appears that the voters are on to something...
Rhooster....
"Sticks & stones may break my bones but words will never harm me..."
She is up thats for sure but I wouldnt put a lot of faith in polls at this point.
Either way, what makes you think she would do better?
Lowden halted the election in midstream and without the approval of delegates to the convention. A few weeks after the election at the state convention was abruptly halted, a few state party leaders named the delegates to the national convention, which according to the Republican National Committee, violated an agreement with the national party which required that the delegates be elected at the state convention.
So you want someone who riggs elections and screws their own party members? Nice.
And Ksand99, she gave her husband a $200,000 dollar bonus to be exact. Thats not so bad him being an employee and all, that way sure the company was doing so poor 100+ workers had to go but atleast on of the hard workers got something. (haha)
Some of her points and views actually appear to great to me, I could never get over the BS pulled with the delegates. Sounds like she may be better suited for the poliburo. We love democracy..........you can vote for candidate 1A or 1B that we have selected for you.
"It is despicable that members of this esteemed body would question the integrity and the weight of a sitting president during wartime ..."
Harry Reid
SOURCE: The New York Times