Sen. Kirk on the Yucca Mountain Project

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[JVLarson1]

Coal produces orders of magnitude more waste and it is also hazardous. Nuclear fuel on the other can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel. France does this. Reprocessing technology was developed at the Arrgone National Lab here in suburban Chicago.

[diegothebrave2008]

A nuclear storage facility we do need and I'll go for it. But nuclear waste is radioactive for longer than civilization has even existed. I don't know how we're going to do it, but we need to make the transition to more environmental solutions to get our energy from.

[Nostromides]

Sen. Kirk, first, thank you for posting your views. However, I must correct you on one thing - the money spent on Yucca was not on the TAXPAYER, but rather the those who benefit from nuclear energy, the RATEPAYER, who pays a very small amount of their electric bill into an account established by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as amended 1984. This distinction needs to be made clear.

Again, my thanks and continue the good fight. Nuclear energy has a crucial role in our national energy policy.

[SpringChatty]

:O) 

[Dispen52]

I agree with you Senator Kirk. We should get the nuclear waste secured in a safe environment and away from our drinking water.

[mew1183]

I am in complete agreement with your position on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.

Mary Wilbur

St. Charles

[retroact96513]

I am opposed to nuclear energy for this reason--the waste never goes away! We need to develop renewable energy which will also decrease our dependence on foreign oil. In the meantime ( the rest of my natural life), the companies/facilities that produce the waste should be finding a suitable storage space for it and paying for it as well. Until the current waste is suitably housed, they should not be allowed to produce more of it.

[DaBoxToldMeTo]

SAFER forms of energy that has been ignored if not "forgotten". I.E. look up Documentary Heaven, the light bulb. It's all about the profits!

[DaBoxToldMeTo]

It SHOULD be the financial responsibility of the power companies alone who produce it !!! They would then be putting all those profits to good use!! With all of the incentves & tax breaks given to companys WHY??? Should "WE THE PEOPLE" pay for lack of NEW Sending it to other states just spreads disaster to people to who do not want ANYTHING that is potentially harmfull stored in their state. What happened to states independent right to choose ? 

[lastkatdancing]

That's just crazy. I am sure lots of people are going to be dying from Fukushima--very slowly--and for a very long time. And, as I recall, the Challanger and Cloumbia were American...not to mention a lot of rockets at the cape, whos' names I can't rember, blew up. Nukes are not the ansewer--renewables are.

[currykate]

I say blast it all out into space. *shrug*

[SarahBellification]

Our only ecologically responsible policy is to eliminate nuclear energy and its unsustainable waste! What about hazardous, nuclear waste is okay in your world (or your children's, children's, children's worlds)??? This is WRONG! Let's also not forget about BP's oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana that is, right now, dumping mercury, PCBs, and other carcinogens into Lake Michigan-our drinking water. No wonder Lake Michigan got a grade of a "C" during recent tests. Please stand up for yourselves!!!