Comments on: Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/04/concerns-over-nuclear-waste-importation-should-not-lead-to-ban/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Guest Blogger: Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN) Responds | Conservative Principles Now http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/04/concerns-over-nuclear-waste-importation-should-not-lead-to-ban/#comment-67950 Guest Blogger: Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN) Responds | Conservative Principles Now Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:39:50 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=19143#comment-67950 [...] Note: On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation published a blog in The Foundry entitled “Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban.” You can read it here. Congressman Bart Gordon, a sponsor of the legislation, asked us for [...] [...] Note: On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation published a blog in The Foundry entitled “Concerns Over Nuclear Waste Importation Should Not Lead to Ban.” You can read it here. Congressman Bart Gordon, a sponsor of the legislation, asked us for [...]

]]> By: Nicolai Alatzas http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/04/concerns-over-nuclear-waste-importation-should-not-lead-to-ban/#comment-66310 Nicolai Alatzas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:49:34 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=19143#comment-66310 Nuclear Power is a failed experiment that can not balance a budget no matter where you are. The costs of building a 50 mW facility costs billions of dollars. Parabolic Solar Collectors which are capable of producing power 24 hours a day have been built recently at a cost of $330 million for a 50 mW facility. At full power they are only capable of producing power for 7.5 hours into the evening but couple that with some wind resources and some of the new Flywheel technology being implemented in California and you have real no waste renewable energy for years to come. Government subsidies and lack of implementation of equitable and safe storage is among the problems with Nuclear Power. The waste issue has been placed on the American Tax payers as the responsible party for getting rid of the waste. "Recovery Act Funding Will Provide for Cleanup of Northern Idaho’s Silver Valley and Enable Another 100 People to be Hired; Silver Valley Among the 50 Most Polluted and Hazardous Waste Sites in the Country. "Northern Idaho's Silver Valley is among 50 of the nation's most-polluted and hazardous waste sites that were chosen Wednesday to receive a share of the federal stimulus money. Between $10 million and $25 million will be spent in the mining region to remove pollution from about 1,000 residential lawns contaminated by decades of mining and smelting, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. About 100 more people will be hired to the existing work force of 125 to complete the work two years ahead of schedule. ‘The whole intent was to create jobs,’ said Dan Opalski at the EPA's regional headquarters in Seattle. ‘This will allow the state to supercharge that program for a couple of years.’ The new goal is to finish the project by 2013 instead of 2015, he said." [Associated Press, 4/15/09] Besides blocking other countries shipments of contaminated protective shoe covers and clothing, wiping rags, mops, filters, reactor water treatment residues, equipments and tools, luminous dials, medical tubes, swabs, injection needles, syringes, and laboratory animal carcasses and tissues have nothing to do with producing Nuclear Energy. Until we have viable cost effective solutions to take care of waste we already have in America BLOCK all shipments of radioactive waste from coming in my borders. Nuclear Power is a failed experiment that can not balance a budget no matter where you are. The costs of building a 50 mW facility costs billions of dollars. Parabolic Solar Collectors which are capable of producing power 24 hours a day have been built recently at a cost of $330 million for a 50 mW facility. At full power they are only capable of producing power for 7.5 hours into the evening but couple that with some wind resources and some of the new Flywheel technology being implemented in California and you have real no waste renewable energy for years to come. Government subsidies and lack of implementation of equitable and safe storage is among the problems with Nuclear Power.

The waste issue has been placed on the American Tax payers as the responsible party for getting rid of the waste.

"Recovery Act Funding Will Provide for Cleanup of Northern Idaho’s Silver Valley and Enable Another 100 People to be Hired; Silver Valley Among the 50 Most Polluted and Hazardous Waste Sites in the Country. "Northern Idaho's Silver Valley is among 50 of the nation's most-polluted and hazardous waste sites that were chosen Wednesday to receive a share of the federal stimulus money. Between $10 million and $25 million will be spent in the mining region to remove pollution from about 1,000 residential lawns contaminated by decades of mining and smelting, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. About 100 more people will be hired to the existing work force of 125 to complete the work two years ahead of schedule. ‘The whole intent was to create jobs,’ said Dan Opalski at the EPA's regional headquarters in Seattle. ‘This will allow the state to supercharge that program for a couple of years.’ The new goal is to finish the project by 2013 instead of 2015, he said." [Associated Press, 4/15/09]

Besides blocking other countries shipments of contaminated protective shoe covers and clothing, wiping rags, mops, filters, reactor water treatment residues, equipments and tools, luminous dials, medical tubes, swabs, injection needles, syringes, and laboratory animal carcasses and tissues have nothing to do with producing Nuclear Energy.

Until we have viable cost effective solutions to take care of waste we already have in America BLOCK all shipments of radioactive waste from coming in my borders.

]]> By: Bobbie Jay http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/04/concerns-over-nuclear-waste-importation-should-not-lead-to-ban/#comment-66029 Bobbie Jay Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:36:27 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=19143#comment-66029 Nuclear is a magnificent, proficient, efficient energy, that would take this country far in creating jobs, building the economy and sustaining freedom... only the ignorant would deny. Nuclear is a magnificent, proficient, efficient energy, that would take this country far in creating jobs, building the economy and sustaining freedom… only the ignorant would deny.

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