Court rejects state's nuclear waste cleanup law (Hanford, WA)

[jpak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2141909420080521

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a Washington state law barring the federal government from adding radioactive waste to the Hanford nuclear disposal site until existing contamination is cleaned up.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law pre-empts the state from halting waste disposal at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a 586-square-mile (1,520-square-km) site along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington.

It provided plutonium for World War Two atomic bombs and for the U.S. Cold War arsenal.

The three-judge appellate panel invalidated the 2004 voter-approved measure, saying it infringes on federal rules that apply to radioactive wastes and the U.S. Department of Energy's ability to dispose of that waste.

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[madokie]

1. Ah but all that nuclear waste is nothing to worry about

its never killed anyone or so I read here in the DU Energy forum. Actually I've read some pretty astonishing shit here and I believe not one iota of it. Nuclear energy is a genie that should never have been let out of the bottle. The waste that we have worldwide, today, will have to be dealt with for far into the future, for all intent and purposes, forever. Cleaning it up will be a daunting task even if we were to not add another ounce to to that stockpile.
I guess it must help believing in Armageddon as there is no need to worry about what to do with it after god comes and takes the believers away with the rest of us and the world then burning into eternity or some such crap.

[Zachstar]

2. WTF are you talking about?

Waste can be "burned" from a neutron fusion reactor. So within 30 years the waste that is stored is going to start to be burned away not 100 thousand years.

[madokie]

3. Hey zac I don't studder, I type very clear in saying what I wish to say

and I make no bones about nuclear waste and to what to do with it.
btw, where are these neutron fusion reactors located

[Zachstar]

4. Did I not say 30 years?

ITER

And even if they are not good at producing power they are VERY good at producing neutrons. The EMC2 research has produced a reactor that can pump out neutrons.

Neutron production is going to be easy to do in the future. Nuclear Waste is going to be burned.

[madokie]

5. did you now?

Neutron production is going to be easy to do in the future. Nuclear Waste is going to be burned. :rofl::rofl:
'scuse me while I laugh my ass off... Neutron production is going to be easy to do in the future. Nuclear Waste is going to be burned. yeah right. you're killing me man :rofl::rofl:

[Zachstar]

6. Sigh.. I wonder why I even wasted time to post that.

Facing a fundie is like facing a brick wall.

[madokie]

7. A lot of things I am maybe but a fundy is not one of them, so get that straight

I quit buying bullshit when it comes to nuclear waste back a long time ago. And yes you did waste your time.
Damn, now my ass hurts.
all jokes aside we still have not found a viable way to deal with nuclear waste even after all these years, all them lies and all the money spent. so far its all been for naught. I question the supposedly millions spent on that endeavor, was it even done???

[Zachstar]

8. Ok just let me ask you this for the record.

Do you think at the rate technology is progressing that we will NOT find a way to deal with waste in 50 years? 100? 1,000?

[madokie]

9. If the past record is any indication I would say we have no way of answering that question today,

truthfully. Supposedly there has been many man hours and much money spent on that and as it stands now its all still just pie in the sky, hoping for the best, at best. So I question if it will ever be found a safe and viable solution to this very real problem with using nukes for power generation. I keep hoping that a breakthrough will happen but as it stands today that hasn't happened yet. Fossil fuels are killing us, that I do know, but jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not my mo.
Hopefully a solution will be found