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Obama official says Yucca Mountain nuclear storage site has no chance Published 22 June 2011 On Monday a senior Department of Energy official said that the long-term nuclear storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was no longer a viable option; Daniel Poneman, the deputy Energy Secretary, said, "We do not see Yucca Mountain as a solution here. It is time to turn the page and try to find a better set of solutions"; in 2002 Congress approved Yucca Mountain as the designated long term storage site for nuclear waste from atomic reactors in the United States and preparations were under way for the deep underground facility, but in 2010 President Obama withdrew funding for the project http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/stand ard/yucca-mountain-1.jpg Tunneling at Yucca Mountain // Source: freedomsphoenix.com On Monday a senior Department of Energy official said that the long-term nuclear storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada was no longer a viable option. Speaking at an international conference on nuclear safety in Vienna, Austria, Daniel Poneman, the deputy Energy Secretary, said <http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110621_8475.php> , "We do not see Yucca Mountain as a solution here. It is time to turn the page and try to find a better set of solutions." In 2002 Congress approved Yucca Mountain as the designated long term storage site for nuclear waste from atomic reactors in the United States and preparations were under way for the deep underground facility, but in 2010 President Obama withdrew funding for the project. Local residents, environmentalists, and Nevada politicians have long opposed the facility, while President Obama's opposition to the site has been met with fierce criticism from lawmakers who view the lack of a long-term nuclear storage site as a threat to national security. Nuclear waste is currently housed in special dry casks at atomic plants, which critics say are a potential target for terrorists. "I think any policy - the success of which can only be measured over many decades - can only succeed with strong bipartisan support and strong support from the communities affected," Poneman said. "It was equally clear that Yucca Mountain was not going to have that kind of support," he added. The White House has formed a blue-ribbon task force to find alternatives to the long-term storage of radioactive waste from nuclear reactors. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
