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Originally posted by Mike AI@May 19 2004, 09:14 AM
What's going on with Yucca mountain?? Whats the deal - never heard of it.
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Yucca Mountain is where they are proposing to put all of the country's nuclear waste.
They spent several millions of dollars trying to convince the state of Nevada that it'll all be safe and they've shown endless propaganda videos of these huge storage containers where the waste will be stored.
Most residents are against it because we were burned before by that whole test site fiasco (people were sitting outside with their families watching them test the bombs and these many years later there area bunch of health problems with the later generation of kids).
If it becomes the site for the nations nuclear waste storage, it makes us a potentional terror target.
Most of the other states had no poblem with it until they found out the trains running the waste out this way would be passing through their cities, counties and states. Suddnely those assholes got concerned.
I don't trust the government enough to keep this secure (both the storage and the transporttation) enough. I don't want them to push down our throats how safe this is then watch my kids' kids coming down with "mysterious illnesses" years later.
It's very much a hot button issue here in Nevada and basically anyone who wanted to get elected here had to be anti-Yucca and have that as one of their top priorities.
If the Bush administration has their way, we'll have no choice. What do we get out of it? ooh a couple more jobs (for people that will die early and come down with mysterious maladies like at the test site).
These fuckwits couldn't even dig the big holes out there for this proposed site without hazard issues (improper resperitory devices, etc.).
The health of me, my family and my community is a very high priority. If this stuff was really so safe to store and transport, why don't we just store it in Detroit or the middle of New York City? If these storage holders are sooo safe, why don't we open a big amusement park called Nuke land and let the kids play on the big storage containers?
Sorry, the issue gets me a little agitated ;-)