Bush eyes Yucca funds

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2006/jan/23/520009011.html

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration as early as next month is expected to renew efforts to give the Energy Department expanded access to a national fund created to pay for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

If successful, the administration's move could advance planning for the controversial, proposed nuclear waste dump. Nevada lawmakers, however, have turned back similar attempts in the past and hope to do the same again.

Bush and pro-Yucca lawmakers for years have pushed an effort to take the Yucca fund "off-budget," in effect, wresting annual budget-setting control for the project from Congress by giving the department more direct access to the fund.

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The bill also could include other nuclear power-related proposals that Bush might mention in his State of the Union speech Jan. 31, according to the trade publication Energy Washington Week. Those proposals could include plans to expand nuclear power worldwide, including a plan to provide India, China and other nations with uranium fuel for new nuclear plants, the publication said.

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[Dead_Parrot]

1. So, you have to choose:

a) Bush has finally got a clue about energy policy, or
b) Halliburton smell a porky contract cooking.

Me, I vote B. Thoughts?

[NanceGreggs]

2. Why can't they store nuclear (or nuk-u-lar) waste ...

... near the White House, with the rest of the toxic garbage that's threatening the country?

[NNadir]

3. Gee, I hope this doesn't effect the carbon dioxide depository.

You know, the one that's causing global climate change.

The coal industry has been paying year after year to store carbon dioxide, but the repository never opens and the coal waste is being stored in our atmosphere.

Since coal waste actually kills people and so called "nuclear waste" doesn't, one would hope that this repository would open first.

Where, exactly, are the plans for it?

[wordpix]

4. Bushieboy's making his move to go nuclear since he sees oil ain't as easy

to wrest from the A-rabs as he thought