Nevada Waste Site Plan to Proceed Despite Ruling

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Nevada Waste Site Plan to Proceed Despite Ruling

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By Chris Baltimore

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration will proceed with a plan to build a nuclear waste site in Nevada this year despite a court decision ordering it to prevent radiation leaks for more than 10,000 years, a senior Energy Department official said on Tuesday.

Critics of the project, including Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid of Nevada, say this recent federal court ruling could permanently derail a plan to build a massive underground storage depot beneath Yucca Mountain about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The administration said, however, that it does not intend to slow down.

"We are still on track toward submitting a license application in December of this year, and opening the repository and beginning waste acceptance in 2010," Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow told a Senate Energy Committee hearing on nuclear energy.

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[bobbieinok]

1. LAW, COURT DECISIONS????? 'I am the law', (l'etat, c'est moi)

[Massacure]

2. It is such a shame that they don't reprocesses this stuff.

Then reuse the possible parts.

It would be more expensive, but there would be less volume of waste, and it wouldn't be radioactive as long.

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4. kick

[tom_paine]

5. Jesus Christ these Imperial Shitpiles make me sick! The law means NOTHING

to them.

NOTHING!

:grr: :mad: :grr: :grr: :mad: :grr:

These people are forcing a showdown of Liberty vs. Tyranny. They won't be happy until it spills over into (COMMENT REDACTED) and they can declare their precious Martial Law.

It's what they WANT!

Hey, if only us Filthy Little Nobodies could just ignore judicial verdicts WE didn't like, eh?

Lawless Totalitarian MONSTERS!

[gratuitous]

6. Kiss Nevada good-bye

How extravagant the corrupt Bush administration is, throwing away electoral votes like that. Someday, they may be scarce.

[bushisanidiot]

7. What happened to "the rule of law"???

AWOL only follows the rules if it benefits him.. otherwise he tells everyone they can go F*** themselves..