User profile: Metman

Sen. Reid has Mr. Seidman's vote apparently.

They both think the Yucca Mountain Project was the worst thing that could happen to Nevada. I think they are hysterical and it was a huge mistake to kill funding for the project. I am also certain it will be built one day. But not for a long time now. There were many educated, and productive people working to solve a national problem and spending their professional salaries in the local economy. Now they are leaving this area.

But this problem won't go away. Acting on solving it will simply be delayed. It is almost inevitable.

So that is quite an accomplishment there Senator Reid. Kill off a workplace that would have employed professionals "till the end of the republic" in the worst economic climate in generations. Then tell everyone it is not about jobs. Then make a ridiculous statement about employing people in the thousands of new green jobs you've created. And they are where exactly? How much do they pay? How many of them are there? There are in fact almost none.

Well, there are all those valet positions available.

Oh, wait. You can't get one of those positions without a sponser. A degree doesn't count.

Well they are still building mega resorts along the strip.

Oh. Wait. Echelon and Fontainebleau are dead.

Well at least there will be no scientists employed in the desert. Congratulations Senator Reid. The Sun thinks that is quite an accomplishment. Hope you can talk with Brian about it over brunch after your forced retirement next year.

Mr. Seidman doesn't know much about the science or the many professional studies that detailed the geological conditions around Yucca Mountain.

But, he doesn't care to know. He is simply parroting.

Harry Reid will be irrelavant after 2010.

Well, more so than he is now--he can them join the "Sun" as a true staffer, an unofficial position he holds now.

People are not stupid, they know what is happening to them and who is responsible for it.

Harry Reid is wearing a great big political bulls eye on his back and voters will aim there ballots dead center.

He is gone, and good riddance to a spiteful self serving career politician.

As for the LV Sun, unlike the newspaper that delivers it to its few remaining readers, it will carry on for a few more years as an insert--till it too becomes just another blog.

But I don't wish it on you, I don't harbor the vitriol of Senator Reid who wishes the LV Review Journal go out of business. If only because Brian Greenspun needs to maintain a hobby platform where he can post those brilliant editorials that the lefties love so much.

Trouble is, this is Nevada Brian. The West...not your coffee house in Berekely.

Harry Reid will be in a low place after 2010. We'll see what kind of a friend he is then. Reid is finished.

Harry Reid may win. But not if I can help it. And I will work my ass of to defeat this SOB.

About 1976 I was employed at a research facility outside Boston. My roommate was attending MIT as a nuclear engineer to be. We discussed nuclear power then and he told me it was a great way to go if we could solve the waste problem. That was about 34 years ago. Yucca Mountain was brought up often in the mid 80's in discussions I had with others in the scientific community, always very respectfully, it was talked about in the same way as we might talk about the space program. Then the studies were started, papers were done, engineering was done and laws were put in place and processes were adopted.

But always, politics were just behind the curtain as they are in most major decisions.

I remain convinced after many years of thought, reading and review, that nuclear power is safe, necessary and viable. I also know that the waste problem has to be addressed, and I now know that the science has addressed most of the serious issues regarding storage at Yucca Mountain.

But the politics which remain are the problem. We adopt a nimby frame of mind while disavowing any serious approach to solving the problem. Repeating 30 years of work elsewhere is not an answer. A referral to another congressional committee is not an answer. El Lobo's thoughts are representative of that attitude as far as I see it. I think it a moral failing on this generation to not take responsibility to solve this problem, and as stated previously I feel confident that Yucca Mountain is a good solution.

I find Senator Reid to be the worst type of elected official for playing off irrational fears for political purpose.

I will work hard to help remove him from office in the next election, even though I've never volunteered to be active in the elcection process before. I urge others to volunteer as well.