Bush Presses for Nuclear Energy Expansion (details and comments)

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2006/feb/18/021800699.html

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"We are taking enormous risks going down this path," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman earlier this week at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

While calling it "a well-intentioned program," Clinton questioned its cost and said its potential proliferation risks "seem to raise more dangers and questions than answers."

The Energy Department acknowledges that the $250 million sought by the administration is only a small down payment for the program. The department envisions spending $1.8 billion over the following three years and about $13 billion over 10 years to develop a demonstration project for reprocessing, including a new-generation "fast" reactor needed to burn up more of the fuel.

Clinton said some studies have put the cost of developing a nuclear reprocessing technology at $100 billion.

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[ecoalex]

1. Nuclear is a boondoggle a $$$$ PIT smart new sources not Nuclear

[gizmo1979]

2. With the people Bush has in charge

of the regulatory agencies ,what could possibly go wrong?!Lord help us all.