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Why does Trump hate Vegas?

malibber2

Mar 16, 2017
10:57am

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Originally posted by: DonDiego

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The Yucca Mountain site was selected because it was deemed the safest place within the United States to store nuclear waste.

Actually, it wasn't. Politically, it was the only viable option. There are numerous scientific problems with the site that have never been addressed. To date, there is nothing at the site but an exploratory tunnel.

OK. DonDiego stands corrected. Yucca Mountain was the safest place which was also politically acceptable.

Now, perhaps, malibber2 can provide evidence that President Trump "wants to turn [Las Vegas] into a nuclear waste dump."

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

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“As has been stated in the past, Yucca is dead and this reckless proposal will not revive it,” Heller said in a Thursday statement following the release of Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal 2018. “Washington needs to understand what Nevada has been saying for years: we will not be the nation’s nuclear waste dump,” he said. “This project was ill-conceived from the beginning and has already flushed billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain.”

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malibber2

Mar 16, 2017
11:46am

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OK. DonDiego stands corrected. Yucca Mountain was the safest place which was also politically acceptable.

Ultimately, it was the only place considered, so of course it is going to be the safest place when there were no other options on the table.

Don

Mar 16, 2017
9:34pm

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Originally posted by: malibber2

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

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“As has been stated in the past, Yucca is dead and this reckless proposal will not revive it,” Heller said in a Thursday statement following the release of Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal 2018. “Washington needs to understand what Nevada has been saying for years: we will not be the nation’s nuclear waste dump,” he said. “This project was ill-conceived from the beginning and has already flushed billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain.”

Umm, . . . quote says: "Nevada", not "Las Vegas"

DonDiego agrees Yucca Mountain is within the State of Nevada.

So, . . . President Trump has not expressed the opinion that he wants to turn Las Vegas into a nuclear waste dump.
And Senator Dean heller [R-NV] does not want a nuclear waste site established at Yucca Mountain.

Both reasonable opinions.
DonDiego repeats his proposal that malibber2 communicate his recommendation to the Atomic Energy Commision of a solution better than the one-time proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada. He remains certain that the AEC will be grateful for the advice.

Don

Mar 16, 2017
9:58pm

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Originally posted by: malibber2

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OK. DonDiego stands corrected. Yucca Mountain was the safest place which was also politically acceptable.

Ultimately, it was the only place considered, so of course it is going to be the safest place when there were no other options on the table.

Umm, . . . "ultimately" Yuccca Mountain was the only site "selected".

From wikipedia :
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act [NWPA]required the Secretary of Energy to issue guidelines for selection of sites for construction of two permanent, underground nuclear waste repositories. DOE was to study five potential sites, and then recommend three to the President by January 1, 1985. Five additional sites were to be studied and three of them recommended to the president by July 1, 1989 as possible locations for a second repository. A full environmental impact statement was required for any site recommended to the President.

Locations considered to be leading contenders for a permanent repository were basalt formations at the government's Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington; volcanic tuff formations at its Nevada nuclear test site, and several salt formations in Utah, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Salt and granite formations in other states from Maine to Georgia had also been surveyed, but not evaluated in great detail.
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The NWPA was amended in 1987 to reflect the selection of Yucca Mountain.

Oh, . . . and there is, in fact, another nuclear waste disposal site already in operation.

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Throughout the 1960s, government scientists searched for an appropriate site for radioactive waste disposal, eventually testing a remote desert area of southeastern New Mexico where, 250 million years earlier, evaporation cycles of the ancient Permian Sea had created a 2,000-foot-thick salt bed.

In 1979, Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The WIPP facility, located 26 miles southeast of Carlsbad, N.M., was constructed during the 1980s. Congress limited WIPP to the disposal of defense-generated transuranic [TRU] wastes. In 1998, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified WIPP for safe, long-term disposal of TRU wastes.
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Ref: energy.gov

So far, Carlsbad, NM, . . . only 26 miles from the WIPP site, . . . has not been reduced to a nuclear waste dump.

IndyBoilerman

Mar 17, 2017
7:50am

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I hope Trump is gutsy enough to make a decision................unlike the past 15 or so presidents.

billryan

Mar 17, 2017
9:40am

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Fairly sure Calvin Coolidge didn't give the subject much thought.

Don

Mar 18, 2017
10:06pm

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Just to summarize:

On 18 June 2016 speaking in the Mystère Theater at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino Donald Trump stated: "I love Las Vegas !".
Ref: Trump Rally in Las Vegas

Subsequently no evidence has been presented to support the assertion that President Trump "hates Las Vegas".

And no evidence has been produced which suggests that President Trump wants to "turn [Las Vegas] into a nuclear waste dump.

drmilled

Mar 19, 2017
4:16am

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Once again, malibber mouths off with a fake assertion - typical liberal bullshit.

jatki

Mar 19, 2017
7:20am

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Originally posted by: malibber2

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
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Originally posted by: malibber2
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The Yucca Mountain site was selected because it was deemed the safest place within the United States to store nuclear waste.

Actually, it wasn't. Politically, it was the only viable option. There are numerous scientific problems with the site that have never been addressed. To date, there is nothing at the site but an exploratory tunnel.

OK. DonDiego stands corrected. Yucca Mountain was the safest place which was also politically acceptable.

Now, perhaps, malibber2 can provide evidence that President Trump "wants to turn [Las Vegas] into a nuclear waste dump."

Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.)

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“As has been stated in the past, Yucca is dead and this reckless proposal will not revive it,” Heller said in a Thursday statement following the release of Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal 2018. “Washington needs to understand what Nevada has been saying for years: we will not be the nation’s nuclear waste dump,” he said. “This project was ill-conceived from the beginning and has already flushed billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain.”

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Typical NIMBY

billryan

Mar 19, 2017
8:01am

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Yes, what could go wrong putting a nuclear dump an hour north of such a large city, and even closer to the source of the water supply for some twenty five million people.

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