Vote for Craig Bergland

Yucca Mountain

Added: Jun 5th, 2008
When the idea of a national repository first came up years ago, I was for it. Why not collect all this dangerous material into one safe, guardable spot? And, my thoughts were to tax the federal government for each load delivered, and those funds to go into the Nevada State coffers. Also, we could have bargained with the feds that they return X-number of acres back to us. As you may know, the BLM owns about 87% of Nevada land. However, since there have been credible questions about the safety of Yucca Mountain, and especially concerns about the wisdom of transporting deadly nuclear waste through populated areas, I am currently opposed to Yucca. What remains is the problem of what to do with that toxic waste. What shall we do? We cannot ignore this dilemma. One far-out possibility is that we re-use that waste heat on-site. It is possible that we could build hot air engines which use that waste heat and generate electricity. A ridiculous idea? Perhaps, but perhaps it is one worth exploring. Until it can be proven that moving this spent fuel is safe, and that Yucca is geologically stable, and other problems are addressed, I am opposed to it.