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What To Make Of Trump’s Remarks On The Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear-Waste Repository

October 23, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Katie Tubb ~ More Americans should care about nuclear-waste management than actually do. That’s because it’s an issue that has cost taxpayers more than $6 billion in court battles and is on track to cost tens of billions of dollars more. But for many Nevadans and the wonky few outside of the Silver State […]

Now Is Congress’ Prime Opportunity To Act On Nuclear Waste

March 8, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Katie Tubb ~ Congress has pushed through a series of five stopgap measures to fund the government, and is now in final negotiations for a trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill to cover the rest of the fiscal year. For an hour on Monday night, a group of congressmen from both parties and from all across […]

The Difference Between A Conservative And A Labor Party Anti Nuclear Hysteric? 17 Years

February 16, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Why has it taken the Australian Labor Party 17 years to even consider a plan first forward by Pangea and howled down then by anti-nuclear hysterics? Why did the Labor Party surrender billions of dollars and thousands of jobs over so many years, when its duty was to confront the fake […]

The Three-Decade Delay Of A Nuclear Waste Repository

September 3, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ There was a time when the United States was a can-do nation that built canals, bridges, railroads, and highways. Now we are a nation whose civil engineers annually report the dangers of decaying infrastructure. A perfect example of how incompetent our government has become is the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. […]

A Nuclear Waste Carol

December 24, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Jack Spencer and Katie Tubb ~ Yucca Mountain was dead—to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the Senator, the Chairman, the Secretary, and the President. Now three Senators, maybe four, were left to pick up the pieces. On one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, […]

Nuclear Power Schizophrenia

August 13, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Alan Caruba ~ It should come as no surprise that environmentalists oppose the use of nuclear energy in the same way they oppose coal or the fracking technology that is unlocking huge new reserves of natural gas. Currently nuclear energy provides about twenty percent of the electricity used in the U.S. Their attack on coal—led […]

The Science IS Settled…On Yucca Mountain

March 5, 2010 by PA Pundits - International

By Nick Loris Lost in President Obama’s rhetoric that the science is settled on climate change, the president is willing to shut down Yucca Mountain without scientific justification. Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) filed to withdraw the application for the geologic repository Yucca Mountain that was supposed to begin collecting used fuel in 1998. […]

Nuclear Electrical Power Generation – Why The Fuss? (Part 9)

August 7, 2009 by TonyfromOz

THE WASTE! THE WASTE! WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE WASTE? Put the word ‘nuclear’ in front of that word waste, and all rational debate immediately goes out the window. I have argued in all the earlier posts that nuclear power for the generation of electricity should be kept on the table as a viable […]