Trump punts on Yucca nuclear waste site

[bananas]

Source: The Hill

Donald Trump isn’t taking a position for the time being on the highly contentious, decades-old proposal to build a federal nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Speaking late Wednesday with Las Vegas television station KSNV, the Republican presidential nominee acknowledged the controversial nature of the Yucca Mountain proposal, and said he would eventually stake out a position on it.

“I'm going to take a look at it, because so many people are talking about it. I came into town and everyone's talking about it. So I will take a very strong look at it, and the next time you interview me, we'll talk about it for five minutes,” Trump said in an interview.

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“You have to worry about safety,” Trump told the station. “And it’s a little bit close to a very major population base, so I’m going to take a very strong look at it and I will come very strongly one way or the other. I will have an opinion.”

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Clinton told the Las Vegas Sun in January that Yucca should be permanently “off the table” as a nuclear dump.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/299575-trump-punts-on-yucca-nuclear-waste-site

[petronius]

1. Pathetically, that's actually a major step forward for him to admit that

he doesn't know something (rather than making up some bullshit or going off on a tangent). Of course, the rest of that interview was chockablock with typical Trump ignorance...

[exboyfil]

3. Of course someone running for President

should have known about Yucca Mountain and its history. I debated about nuclear storage in 1980 in high school. We have been kicking this ball around since the 1970s.

[jtuck004]

2. Just another two-faced politician. n/t

[livetohike]

4. He doesn't prepare for anything. His advisors should have told him what some

major concerns might be. When is he going to "take a strong look at it"? Fraud.

[pnwmom]

5. No way he'd be campaigning there without having a position on Yucca.. He's just saving it

for after the election he thinks he's winning.

[Saviolo]

6. I'm going to take a strong look at it

I'm going to take a very strong look at it and I will come very strongly on it. I will have a strong opinion about this strong issue. It's tremendously strong. It's so strong, and I'm going to be strong about it. I'm thinking strongly about being strong about this strong issue that I'm looking strongly at. I'm strongly going to strongly strong this strong in the strong strong. I'm strong strong strong strong strong strong strong strong.

Believe it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. A "strong look"! ROFL...what the fuck does that even mean?

Can you imagine Trump sitting down and reading two or three policy papers on Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste storage strategies?

He's going to take a "strong look!" Four weeks before the election, you know, he'll have to study up on basic energy policy, and take a "strong look" at it. Because many people are talking about it. Many!

What a dunce.