http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201..._obama_nuclear_plant
More spending from our president. Where will this money come from? More of my Social Security or what?
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Actually I think this is money well spent. The bailouts and all his liberal social programs are where we need to stop the spending. But you are correct in that the money will come from us.
That's fine but the NRC has put a freeze on nuclear plant licenses. A chemical is leeching into the ground from the plants. They don't know the effects of the chemical and it will require a 10 year study to do so. So that money, even though for a nuclear plant, is probably being funneled somewhere else.
No, what they stopped was the license hearings on Yucca Mountain, not on licenses for nuclear plants. Yucca mountain was supposed to hold nuclear waste, but the funding was stripped and the hearing stopped. The license process takes 4 years, not 10 and the alternative they are currently and will have to use now is to hold it in containers at the plant.
This move still has the potential capability of shutting nuclear plants down but not because of chemicals in the ground, just because the various sites they have currently storing the spent fuel may reach capacity before this is settled.
This move still has the potential capability of shutting nuclear plants down but not because of chemicals in the ground, just because the various sites they have currently storing the spent fuel may reach capacity before this is settled.
Just going on what my friend at the NRC was telling me. He said the same as you since plants store the spent fuel, it will delay plant license process.
Federal law makes the US government responsible for providing long term storage for spent nuclear fuel. Obama made the government liable for billions from lawsuits by the states.