EnergySolutions defends foreign nuclear waste plan

[Javaman]

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1397467.html

[kristopher]

1. K&R

Excerpt:

EnergySolutions defends foreign nuclear waste plan

SALT LAKE CITY -- EnergySolutions Inc. has started airing commercials critical of a U.S. congressman who wants to prevent the company from importing Italian nuclear waste for disposal in Utah's west desert.

The company is fighting a bill in Congress sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, that would ban the importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste unless it originated in the U.S. or served a strategic national purpose.

EnergySolutions contends jobs will be put at risk if it isn't allowed to dispose of the waste at its facility, about miles west of Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Matheson said that any country that creates nuclear waste should dispose of it itself.

The two argued Wednesday at separate news conferences over a mailer Matheson sent to constituents in support of his bill and a commercial aired in response on Sunday by EnergySolutions.

The bill was written to block the company's plans to import up to 20,000 tons of waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear power program through the ports of either Charleston, S.C., or New Orleans. After processing in Tennessee, about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in Utah.

If approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it would be the largest single shipment of foreign radioactive waste ever allowed into the U.S.

Matheson and bill co-sponsors, U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn, and Lee Terry, R-Neb., contend EnergySolutions' facility should be preserved for domestic nuclear waste. The company's facility is currently the only one available to 36 states.

"No other country in the world takes low-level radioactive waste from foreign sources. I am taking the necessary steps to prevent Utah from becoming a permanent dumping ground for nuclear waste," Matheson wrote in the brochure....

[madokie]

2. The last thing we need to do is take others nuclear waste

I really don't like where some of it has been going either. I don't have a link handy but recently I read about the mafia sinking ships full of the stuff for profit. Nothing about the nuclear industry is or has ever been honest with us. Long time ago or just today it doesn't matter they simply just lie and do what ever it takes to make it look like their little toy is the shiniest one under the tree. Well fuck the nuke industry every which way from sunday

[NNadir]

3. Bull. Whoever comes into possession of the world's used nuclear fuel will own the future.

It's an incredible resource, but one would need to know some science to understand that.

There are many fuel cycles, such as DUPIC - now under development in Korea (with hopes to acquire used Japanese fuel) - that mean that these resources will come into use in the next few decades.

Every advanced nation in the world is considering this technology, with Asian nations leading the way.

There is no such thing as "nuclear waste," except in the minds of those who don't know shit from shinola about nuclear energy and attack it, nuclear scientists, and nuclear science from a position of ignorance.

I have noted, by the way, on another website that the world's supply of the important industrial metal rhodium available from used nuclear fuel will, by 2030, exceed the world's supply from mines.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/10/143946/647">Supply of Rhodium in Used Nuclear Fuel To Exceed World Supply From Ores by 2030.

The value of rhodium in US fuels alone is on the order of tens of billions of dollars.

Most car CULTists are too oblivious to understand the critical role of rhodium in world technology - including their stupid consumer cars - because mostly they spend their time hanging out by the swimming pool, picking lint out of their navels and musing about the cool solar pool light, oblivious to all the toxic metals in it, rather than work.

[OnlinePoker]

4. I don't think this is only about spent fuel rods

The way I read it, it could be anything that might be contaminated waste (clothing, machinery, etc.), not just fuel rods. If the Italians want to send used fuel rods to the States, I have no problem with it, but if it is contaminated garbage, let them dispose of it in their own backyard.

[madokie]

5. I see it's not taking long for you to be back to your old tricks

no one knows anything about anything nuclear better than you and thats the way it is. Well I got news for you big boy the main reason most anyone wants peaceful nuclear energy is to ultimately make the big bang bomb. Hell if you think about it that is what nuclear material is the best for, making things that go boom. Check out how we're disposing of some of our nuclear waste and with whats happening right now in fallujah due to the choice of weaponry we used there, DU munitions is what I'm talking about in case you can't remember.

I wonder what the comparison would look like between you and your ass on a bicycle and me in one of the more efficient autos in producing co2 for any given distance traveled

Now to go wash the vision out of my brains eye of you in spandex hanging out everywhere on a bicycle. :rofl:

I wish you'd start bottling some of that stuff you're peddling, I'd like to buy some of it ;-) I have a brush pile or two I need to burn and theres nothing better than some greasy shit to get a good brush pile fire going.

merry christmas to you