Obama Yucca

[Yep]

Yet another anti-American move by Obama. He is not allowing the $16B of tax payer spent dollars on building Yucca Nuclear Storage to open. Thus phase one of his plan to shut down Nuclear Power Generation in the USA. Folks, it's safe, green and cheap... Naaa lets funnel more money to Al Gore and wind power.

[gettin silly]

OMG...wind power? Are they serious? Is as dependable as well, the wind!

[Bill]

Nuclear is the only real source of Green Power. Florida consumed 188 acres of solar pannels & can only get 20 mega-watts. Braidwood generates over 2,200 mega watts.

The world is using Nuclear...we used to be a leader in it. Now Obama is trying to kill the industry. What a fool....

2010 cannot come fast enough!

[Yep]

Did you know that 83% of our power in northern Illinois is Nuclear?

[Perspective]

If Obama succedes in shutting down the Nuclear plants.... Between Dresden, Braidwood and LaSalle plants, you, me & your local neighbors will see "over" 10,000 local jobs lost. Good paying jobs! Union & non-union jobs!

Remember the study... for every left coast Green Job created, two jobs in the mid-west get destroyed.

I am just say'n..... think hard about 2010.

[The Pirates of Lenox]

If Nuclear power is so green, you won't mind us dumping nuclear waste in your yard, right?

[Harvest]

Well if you do not like Nuclear power get off the internet and light that fire. So where is your windmill in New Lenox.

[American Patriot]

The Pirates of Lenox wrote:

If Nuclear power is so green, you won't mind us dumping nuclear waste in your yard, right?

Tell me exactly what you think Nuclear waste is?
Ahhhh aaaaa "Duh,,it's aaa radio active stuff. Aaa huh dat's what it is. I heard about it".

You have radio active waste in our area and have since the 1950's. <lol 6 Nuclear Plants in norther Illinois, Argone Lab, etc....

First, understand that the office floor sweepings in a nuclear plant facility are defined by the government as "nuclear waste". The screen your looking at & your TV expose you to far more radiation that you'd get from living on top of a nuclear waste facility. The radon in your basement & house filling the air that you breath every day has more too.

Now, the serious radioactive stuff is the spent fuel. These are wrapped in lead, sealed in srainless steel containers and are transported down every highway. Do ya think the driver dies? <lol

Seriously though, the used fuel is exactly that. It needs a secure facility to be stored in. Today our technology can only extract 10% of the energy in each fuel rod. Perhaps in 10 years, new technology will extract 50%. Guess what? We can then re-use that stored fuel and keep generating the 83% of nuclear electricity northern Illinois now gets.

The environmentalists certainly always find something to complain about. Ignorant people are easy targets too. Don't be one.

[Put up or shut up]

Can somebody show me when and where Obama said he wants to SHUT DOWN nuclear power plants?

[NLM]

Put up or shut up wrote:

Can somebody show me when and where Obama said he wants to SHUT DOWN nuclear power plants?

Listen, when you close the long anticipated fuel storage facility, there is only one place left. On-site at the plant. When the site gets full (and they are close) you must shut down by law.

Actually, Bill Clinton tried exactly the same thing. He & O'leary (energy counsel) made the same move. But the Appachie Indians (yes) saw opportunity.... They opened their sovergn nation (reservation) up for Nuclear Storage and actually saved the industry.

None the less... the real point is that you & I have been charged $16B in utility taxs over the past 15 years to build Yucca. Obama's decision is political once again and not in the best interest of "all" Americans. He needs to be "our" president and "not" the political left wing/democrat party guy.

[NL Patriot]

I hear you and see your point.

Obama is a trickster for sure. I've learned that. These day's I try to vision way ahead of the curve with him to see what he is really trying to do. Lord knows he told us all what we wanted to hear in his campaign (eleguently too I might add)and we believed his words. Fool us once, twice but today we know better. He sold his integrety out. So, watch what he does not what he says he's doing.

[The Pirates of Lenox]

American Patriot wrote:

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Tell me exactly what you think Nuclear waste is?
Ahhhh aaaaa "Duh,,it's aaa radio active stuff. Aaa huh dat's what it is. I heard about it".
You have radio active waste in our area and have since the 1950's. <lol 6 Nuclear Plants in norther Illinois, Argone Lab, etc....
First, understand that the office floor sweepings in a nuclear plant facility are defined by the government as "nuclear waste". The screen your looking at & your TV expose you to far more radiation that you'd get from living on top of a nuclear waste facility. The radon in your basement & house filling the air that you breath every day has more too.
Now, the serious radioactive stuff is the spent fuel. These are wrapped in lead, sealed in srainless steel containers and are transported down every highway. Do ya think the driver dies? <lol
Seriously though, the used fuel is exactly that. It needs a secure facility to be stored in. Today our technology can only extract 10% of the energy in each fuel rod. Perhaps in 10 years, new technology will extract 50%. Guess what? We can then re-use that stored fuel and keep generating the 83% of nuclear electricity northern Illinois now gets.
The environmentalists certainly always find something to complain about. Ignorant people are easy targets too. Don't be one.

So if it's so safe, why not store it in your yard, or your house.
Radiation is lethal above certain doses...

[NL Patriot]

The Pirates of Lenox wrote:

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So if it's so safe, why not store it in your yard, or your house.
Radiation is lethal above certain doses...

You don't know too much about radiation it seems?

Yes, radiation at high levels leads to death in a short period of time. All radiation exposure (Sun, radon, TV, CRT, old brick & concrete basements are samples of sources you're absorbing each & every day). Exposure is cumulitative to the body. One you have "any" exposure, it adds to the next, etc,,,). Back on point though.... The emitting beta or gama particles can be absorbed by such things as water, lead, etc... Standing between these absorbs the damaging radiation before it gets to you. A person that works at any nuclear facility receives literally 1,000's of times the radiation you do each year. 1,000's.... Ever hear of these folks dieing from radation? Nope, nada, zip, zero.... Further, to transport nuclear waste, there are (surprise) government regulations requiring how it must be packaged. The packaging absorbs virtually all radiation & the packaging also is designed to remain intact even if hit from the sky by a 747 (for example).
So, those of us in the know, understand that given the controls over nuclear waste...yes it could be stored in your backyard and you'd be totally safe. Unless a terrorist decides to open it up and steal it.(But then that's why a storage facility is better than a backyard....)

Hey... most people know about as much about this as you do so don't feel bad. Bottom line...don't let enviromentailists take advantage of you because of ignorange.

[The Pirates of Lenox]

NL Patriot wrote:

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You don't know too much about radiation it seems?
Yes, radiation at high levels leads to death in a short period of time. All radiation exposure (Sun, radon, TV, CRT, old brick & concrete basements are samples of sources you're absorbing each & every day). Exposure is cumulitative to the body. One you have "any" exposure, it adds to the next, etc,,,). Back on point though.... The emitting beta or gama particles can be absorbed by such things as water, lead, etc... Standing between these absorbs the damaging radiation before it gets to you. A person that works at any nuclear facility receives literally 1,000's of times the radiation you do each year. 1,000's.... Ever hear of these folks dieing from radation? Nope, nada, zip, zero.... Further, to transport nuclear waste, there are (surprise) government regulations requiring how it must be packaged. The packaging absorbs virtually all radiation & the packaging also is designed to remain intact even if hit from the sky by a 747 (for example).
So, those of us in the know, understand that given the controls over nuclear waste...yes it could be stored in your backyard and you'd be totally safe. Unless a terrorist decides to open it up and steal it.(But then that's why a storage facility is better than a backyard....)
Hey... most people know about as much about this as you do so don't feel bad. Bottom line...don't let enviromentailists take advantage of you because of ignorange.

I guess you better get on the list for dump sites or get one made. We all appreciate your sacrifice..err..contribution.
BTW, all the space at Yucca was already reserved, it'll be full when it opens.

[NL Patriot]

The Pirates of Lenox wrote:

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I guess you better get on the list for dump sites or get one made. We all appreciate your sacrifice..err..contribution.
BTW, all the space at Yucca was already reserved, it'll be full when it opens.

Yep, I'd imagine that every one of the 100 Nuclear Power Plants and 1,000 or so Nuclear facilities in the USA would have all paid fees to have space at Yucca. Hey, our electric utility taxs have funded Yucca right?

BTW, you don't drink the water here in New Lenox do you? There are chemicals in it. Did you know if you drink too much you could be poisoned and die? Oh, I see...you say yes but you'd have to drink 10 gallons a day for 5 years to see the effect.(Same analogy stands true for Nuclear Waste facilities.... I bet you saw that coming huh?)

[Flight]

The Pirates of Lenox wrote:

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So if it's so safe, why not store it in your yard, or your house.
Radiation is lethal above certain doses...

Heck, you get more radiation in a airplane flight than from an X Ray machine.

Like most scientific issues, they're best left to people who know more than the Al Gore/Sierra Club/Greenpeace goofs.

[Huh]

It is a shame that Obama is against Nuclear Power. I am certain it's the far left supporters he favors and submits to on this.

We need a President of the United States in place, not a political leader playing I want to pay you back for your donations.

[Inside Story]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has declared that Yucca Mountain, the site in Nevada where the federal government has been planning to store high-level radioactive waste, is "never going to open." Reid may be right. President Obama's 2010 budget nearly zeroes out federal funding for the waste site. And in March, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress that Yucca Mountain was no longer being viewed as a viable option for storing waste and that the federal government would develop a new disposal plan.

But what's handy politics for Reid and his 2.6 million constituents in Nevada is lousy policy for the other 302 million residents of the United States. By blocking Yucca Mountain, Reid has left the U.S. without a long-term program—or even the beginnings of one—to deal with the 50,000 tons of radioactive spent nuclear fuel
that has been generated by the country's fleet of 104 operating fission reactors. Furthermore, it means that the federal government has wasted two decades—and about $13.5 billion—researching and developing the site at Yucca Mountain (which is ready for use and only awaits licensing).