Yucca stalemate spikes nuclear costs

[NVMojo]

this is such an oxymoron type thing ...corporate nuke plants getting screwed by a Bush loving Red State ....pathetic, really....

Government looking at longer licenses for waste storage

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Nuclear plant operators are facing seriously expensive storage costs for growing stocks of high-level radioactive waste that the federal government promised it would move to a central repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., seven years ago.

But the government's plan is ensnared in a legislative impasse, while storing the waste -- expected to reach 60,000 metric tons by 2010 -- is costing utilities millions of dollars, an operating expense that increases every year.

Forced to find interim storage solutions, utilities now must decide whether to build temporary facilities, extend licenses for storage in containers at existing sites or consider moving waste to private storage facilities, according to regulators, lobbyists and utilities.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/print_story.asp?print=1&guid={2D6B0ECC-446A-4A6F-880A-0FF2A7AF4A2D}&siteid=yhoo

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Let me be the first to make the prediction

Private facilities will be the solution.




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[NVMojo]

2. ACK!!! Good prediction!!!!

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Predicting the obvious is an art

And I'm quite good at it, even though I do say so myself :)

[Albert Einstein]

3. Just so long as they keep that waste away from Yucca and the Color River.

Bringing nuclear waste to Yucca should be considered an act of war against the people of California.

[Just_a_rancher]

4. Where should it go?

They've been looking for a place to store that crud for two decades now. They were going to put it in New Mexico at one point.

I had to do an ethics paper on this in a college engineering class. There just aren't too many other legit solutions other than putting it in one of the most remote places in this country.

[Massacure]

6. What about a bunker under the rockies?

[Just_a_rancher]

7. It pretty much already is.

Yucca Mountain is right on the Rocky Mountain range. There's also going to be a NIMBY attitude wherever you go with it. I know I would be bitching just like the residents of Nevada (even though none of them live very close to the dump) are.

Edit: No, it's not right on the Rocky Mountain range, that's a misleading way to say it.

[DRoseDARs]

10. Yucca Mt. has nothing to do with the Rockies...

Yucca is part of the Sierra Nevada range, which starts the basin-and-range topography until you reach the Rocky Mountains, some 500ish miles east.

Edit: Looks like you've already discovered that before I could respond... ;)

[Just_a_rancher]

12. just kidding

“Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 04:48 AM by Just_a_rancher”

Reply - “Wed Dec-29-04 12:08 PM”

Yeah, that whole six hour delay is a bitch aint it? (just kidding)

[DRoseDARs]

13. I don't get how that works... (off-topic)

I opened DU, went to the current threads, saw this one, noticed your post pre-Edited, and responded all within 5 minutes. Why would the times be so very far off?

[Just_a_rancher]

14. (off topic)

I have no idea. I typed that before I went to bed last night and I just woke up. It was edited about two minutes after I posted it because about teh time I hit "Post Message" I realized how dumb that statement was.

[Cerridwen]

15. Yucca Mt. is 90 miles north of Las Vegas

The largest populated city in Nevada is Las Vegas.

I'm not sure what is considered not very close in the case of storing nuclear waste; since quite frankly most of the "science" I've been able to wade through is suspect.

I also remember years ago other locations being investigated; but that was before the "Screw Nevada" bill came into play.

[The Zanti Regent]

11. Crawford Texas

I say put the waste where it really belongs, right where the Chimp and his pal Ted Nugent live.

[Massacure]

5. Yucca mountain is a bad spot for it.

I hear it is pretty earthquake prone.

In my opinion, the site would be better off being brought a bit to the east. The rocky mountains aren't so earthquake prone, and I can't think of any major rivers that would run underneath a mountain. It might be a bit expensive, but if NORAD can have a bunker, so can the waste.

[Just_a_rancher]

8. Already is...

The Yucca project is basically a gigantic bunker for nuclear waste.