Yucca Moutain Gone, NEI Wants To DUmp Rad Waste At Sea

Keith Johnson from the Wall Street Journal has made it official...the Nuclear Industry, not ready to admit defeat (they cannot SAFELY DISPOSE OF RADIATIVE WASTES) is floating around some new old ideas to deal with the ever growing pile of RADIATIVE WASTES that are unlawfully and illegally stacking up at sites such as Indian Point on the banks of the Hudson River.

Quick Question...we have been paying a surcharge for some time now to have the DOE REMOVE THOSE WASTES IN A TIMELY FASHION...is there a class action attorney out there willing to file a suit on this for the citizens? I already have enough citizen stakeholders for such a Class Action Case...email me at strikeforcenews if you are interested in this as a Pro Bono Case. (Several Utility Companies have already successfully SUED, and gotten MILLIONS, and it is not even THEIR MONEY in the fund.)

Back to the story...seems that the NRC, DOE and NEI are trying to force people to reconsider Yucca Mountain as the storage solution by floating the Disney "Under The Sea" option that has been around for a few decades now. Rather than rehash what is already included in a well linked story, lets share with you what Keith Johnson and the Wall Street Journal have to say on this explosive issue.

Quake Zone: A Really, Really Deep Storage Solution for Nuclear Waste

By Keith Johnson

Now that Yucca Mountain, the proposed storage site for nuclear waste, is off the table, a host of alternative storage options are surfacing—or resurfacing.

Governments around the world have been struggling to find the best way to store spent nuclear fuel. For two decades, the U.S. was committed to burying it in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. France reprocesses its spent fuel. Other countries, such as Spain, have considered storing the stuff above-ground in sealed concrete containers. If nuclear power is to play a bigger part in the nation’s energy mix, the U.S. needs to find a solution to the long-term storage question.

One old idea making the rounds again is deep, deep geological storage. As in sticking nuclear waste inside the earth’s mantle. The idea is to put spent fuel on tectonic plates, and then send it on a one-way ride on the geological conveyor belt into the earth’s crust, where the waste will be sequestered by massive heat and pressure. Greentech Media takes a look at some of the idea’s latest proponents.

Using the earth’s subduction zones for nuclear storage isn’t a new idea—it’s been floating around for decades. The U.S. Department of Energy briefly had a research office dedicated to sub-sea storage solutions. The problems, though, are both technical and political.

Technically, no one has yet found a reliable way to stick the waste so far down. Fears that colliding continental plates could actually push up waste—rather than push it down—have also long dogged the idea. Additionally, international conventions against dumping any radioactive waste in the ocean is a big roadblock for subsea storage ideas.

Those are the main reasons the British government discarded the idea in 2006, along with other far-out ideas such as sticking nuclear waste in ice or in outer space. The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management found that there’s “no proof of concept” for subduction-zone storage, and there’s “no foreseable change” in international treaties limiting its application.

Still, only so much spent fuel can be stored on site at the country’s nuclear reactors. Sooner or later, the government needs to find a solution to the storage question, or nuclear power’s expansion will be physically constrained. Will the Jules Verne-style solution be the answer?

Nuclear Industry Renaissance Is Dying On Vine

Despite the best Public Propaganda Campaign that tritium tainted money can buy, despite the efforts of Admiral Skip Bowman to save the Nuclear Industry as the Nuclear Navy's civilian jobs bank, NEI's vision of a Nuclear Renaissance is dying on the vine. Their FIRST BIG SMACK DOWN came when they were not able to keep their FIFTY BILLION PORK BONE in the Omnibus or Stimulus Bill even though Obama and crew were throwing around taxpayer dollars like candy. Next on the list...both Senator Reid and President Obama has said NO TO YUCCA Mountain as a long term storgage facility...NEI has plans in the works to trick FOUR REGIONAL COMMUNITIES into playing host to supposed temporary sites while spent fuel sits for 99 years waiting to be processed.

Before your community gets TRICKED into become a regional long term death trap for your citizens, consider this...DOE has spent BILLIONS building a MOX (mixed-oxide fuel)plant at Savanah River. MOX is another one of those poppycock, half baked plans like GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Plan) to deal with nuclear waste by reprocessing it into future use fuel. ONE PROBLEM...the DOE has NO CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR MOX FUEL even if they get the plant completed, up and operational.

Energy Department's MOX fuel program loses only contract
The Department of Energy has no customers for the mixed-oxide fuel plant under construction at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina now that Duke Energy let its contract expire. Friends of the Earth spokesman Tom Clements said Duke's decision should raise questions about the fuel program. The Greenville News (S.C.)/The Associated Press (3/15)

In other news...even though the Nuclear Industry has been unable to SUCCESSFULLY dispose of even one ounce of reactor waste, the industry wants to push forward with NEW REACTOR BUILDS. As a stakeholder living just three miles from Entergy's horrid Indian Point Reactors, as someone that has seen the cancer caused by this facility up close and personal, DO NOT LET NEI, the NRC and the nuclear industry site a new reactor in your community, even if your citizens have to take drastic steps to keep them from forcing you into being a host community.

Nuclear growth continues though waste issue is stalled
Georgia Power plans to build two reactors at its Vogtle plant, but the administration's decision to cut funding for a nuclear-waste repository in Nevada calls into question what will happen to the tons of waste in Georgia waiting to be sent to a storage facility. NEI says it can be safely stored for decades at the plants where it is created, while critics say no more waste should be produceduntil a storage solution is determined. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution