Yucca Mountain is the worst idea anyone could have ever thunk up. The USA needs to reprocess it's nuclear fuel and reuse it. Storing it forever is not a solution.
By Jacob Kastrenakes on
...But the ruling may only be a symbolic step forward. (click here) The NRC only has $11.1 million remaining in its budget for reviewing the government's application to use Yucca Mountain, and as the court writes, "$11 million is wholly insufficient to complete the processing of the application." The NRC hasn't said how much it'll need, but the US government believes that, overall, $15 billion has already been put toward the project. Whether Congress is willing to fund it further remains up in the air. The court notes that the NRC originally ended its review due to lack of funding, and that "Congress, of course, is under no obligation to appropriate additional money."...
If Yucca was open today it would be full. There is that much spent nuclear fuel in the USA currently stored in cooling pools. We don't need Yucca, we need to stop the use of this hideous energy.
Imagine that mountain with solar fields. Now realize how hideous nuclear energy sincerely is.
The USA already uses reprocessed weapons grade uranium. Approximately every tenth home in the USA is provided electricity by reprocessed
Russian uranium.Russia delivers uranium to US nuclear power plants
17.07.2012
...Reprocessing (click here) is implemented by a Russian corporation "Rosatom" and the cost of the fuel delivered to the United States has already exceeded nine billion dollars.
"For 20 years of the execution of the agreement the state budget received a total of about $18 billion. At the very beginning, when we signed the contract, its cost was estimated at about $12 billion," Alex Grigoriev, CEO of "TENEX" told radio station "Echo of Moscow". This company is part of the "Rosatom," and provides over 40 percent of the world demand for uranium enrichment services for nuclear power plants with reactors of Western design.
The electricity produced from the reprocessed uranium from Soviet nuclear bombs is consumed by nearly every tenth house of the United States. The Russian-American program "Megatons to Megawatts" will be in effect until 2013....
What was that about seimic activity? Morons. Yeah, yeah, there is money thar. Now there will be more than hydrofracking fluid in the water supply, it will be radioactive besides.
...In Nevada, (click here) at least two companies hope to use the technique to find oil.
State wells spat out roughly 427,000 barrels of oil in 2010, just 0.02 percent of the total oil production in the United States. About 87 percent of the state’s oil came from Nye County, and the rest came from neighboring Eureka County, according to the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.
State regulators typically issue three or four permits each year for oil and gas drilling, but this year, they issued 13 by late September. With fracking growing more popular throughout the country, some companies have started to turn their attention to Nevada, said Alan Coyner, administrator of the state’s Division of Minerals.
No company has used hydraulic fracturing in Nevada, but some now want that option in their permits, he said.
Oil and gas producer Noble Energy plans to explore for crude oil on 350,000 acres it is leasing in northeast Nevada. The company, which gave the project a 55 percent chance of success, aims to start production in 2014....
By Jacob Kastrenakes on
...But the ruling may only be a symbolic step forward. (click here) The NRC only has $11.1 million remaining in its budget for reviewing the government's application to use Yucca Mountain, and as the court writes, "$11 million is wholly insufficient to complete the processing of the application." The NRC hasn't said how much it'll need, but the US government believes that, overall, $15 billion has already been put toward the project. Whether Congress is willing to fund it further remains up in the air. The court notes that the NRC originally ended its review due to lack of funding, and that "Congress, of course, is under no obligation to appropriate additional money."...
Imagine that mountain with solar fields. Now realize how hideous nuclear energy sincerely is.
The USA already uses reprocessed weapons grade uranium. Approximately every tenth home in the USA is provided electricity by reprocessed
Russian uranium.Russia delivers uranium to US nuclear power plants
17.07.2012
...Reprocessing (click here) is implemented by a Russian corporation "Rosatom" and the cost of the fuel delivered to the United States has already exceeded nine billion dollars.
"For 20 years of the execution of the agreement the state budget received a total of about $18 billion. At the very beginning, when we signed the contract, its cost was estimated at about $12 billion," Alex Grigoriev, CEO of "TENEX" told radio station "Echo of Moscow". This company is part of the "Rosatom," and provides over 40 percent of the world demand for uranium enrichment services for nuclear power plants with reactors of Western design.
The electricity produced from the reprocessed uranium from Soviet nuclear bombs is consumed by nearly every tenth house of the United States. The Russian-American program "Megatons to Megawatts" will be in effect until 2013....
What was that about seimic activity? Morons. Yeah, yeah, there is money thar. Now there will be more than hydrofracking fluid in the water supply, it will be radioactive besides.
...In Nevada, (click here) at least two companies hope to use the technique to find oil.
State wells spat out roughly 427,000 barrels of oil in 2010, just 0.02 percent of the total oil production in the United States. About 87 percent of the state’s oil came from Nye County, and the rest came from neighboring Eureka County, according to the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.
State regulators typically issue three or four permits each year for oil and gas drilling, but this year, they issued 13 by late September. With fracking growing more popular throughout the country, some companies have started to turn their attention to Nevada, said Alan Coyner, administrator of the state’s Division of Minerals.
No company has used hydraulic fracturing in Nevada, but some now want that option in their permits, he said.
Oil and gas producer Noble Energy plans to explore for crude oil on 350,000 acres it is leasing in northeast Nevada. The company, which gave the project a 55 percent chance of success, aims to start production in 2014....
