March 04, 2009
Good News: Obama Cuts off Funding for Yucca Mountain
Snapped Shot on another idiotic promise Obama is keeping:
In keeping with a pledge President Obama made during the campaign, the budget released last week cuts off almost all funding for creating a permanent burial site for a large portion of the nation's radioactive nuclear waste at the site in the Nevada desert. Congress selected the location in 1987 and reaffirmed the choice in 2002. About $7.7 billion has been sunk into the project since its inception.So, instead of shipping off the radioactive waste to a pretty good, if not perfect, permanent disposal site we'll keep all that waste at pretty terrible on site short term storage sites .... forever.
Now that's a problem environmentalists should be worried about.
By Rusty at March 4, 2009 04:57 PM | | l digg this
