desertrats wrote on February 12, 2008 04:00 PM: lesshystericsmorefacts

Typical response expected from a rightwingnut ideologue who parrots their mantra, without doing their OWN research on nuclear power. I have done my homework, why don't you do yours and it will be apparent you are on the wrong side.

I repeat no group's propaganda or emotional pleas.

This issue is so central to our survival as a species.

Read a little Helen Caldicott, for starters:

Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer; 2006

New Nuclear Dangers; 2002

If You Love This Planet; 1992

Missile Envy; 1984


P.S. You're deluding yourself to believe DOE has any "case" to "prove."
They've already been proven wrong. It's documented. If you cared at all, there would be none of the usual "show me some proof"; you would already be checking it out on your own. That's the problem with you guys; no independent thought, effort or initiative - just follow the party line.

Ed R. wrote on February 12, 2008 11:12 AM: It'll be a good contract to bid on, because if the telecom amnesty scam is any hint of things to come, no contractor will ever be held liable for misdeeds or mistakes at Yucca that kill people, because corporations will continue to write their own laws with checks.

lesshystericsmorefacts wrote on February 12, 2008 09:52 AM: Response to Rat - nice empassioned speech there. True on the early days of nuclear experiementation. But what worries me is the lack of any factual citations. You asked "why should we believe" .... well, you shouldn't believe anything at face value. You should investigate on your own and you should wait for the DOE to present its case to the NRC and the public. Instead, you've done what people do all the time ... state this is bad or that is wrong with now proof, no facts. You're only parroting what groups like Citizens Alert and our NV politicians have spouted -- and they have no proof either. Frankly no one will one way or another until the NRC starts looking at Yucca's license application. Sen. Reid and company don't want that to happen because they're afraid that the DOE can prove their case. A little less hysterics and a little more reasoning and investigation will do you good Rat.

desertrat wrote on February 12, 2008 09:31 AM: I have lived in Las Vegas since 1949 and until 1962, I believe, all of the "shots" at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) were done above ground. I remember our windows rattling along with the dishes in the cupboard, but NTS was a choice "plum" for employment in the 50's and 60's. We had no reason, back then, to doubt our government's proclamations of safety. We now know differently, as the deaths of so many of the NTS employees here, as well as the down-winders elsewhere have shown. The government is still denying medical claims of those not yet dead.
With little effort, research for newcomers will show our military from Nellis were even made to stand in trenches dug close to ground zero, wearing no more protection other than their uniforms and sunglasses; watching as a shot went off.
Nevada does not need to be forever remembered as the example of what death by radioactivity can do.
Nuclear waste, in the form of Depleted Uranium (DU), is still being used by the Defense Dept. in the tips of armaments, from everything from side-arm bullets to the bunker-buster bombs. The military loves DU. It slices through heavy mountains and thick concrete and steel like a hot knife through butter. The deaths and cancer rates to our soldiers matter not to our government even though the scientific proof is voluminous. Why should we believe them about Yucca Mountain? They have lied repeatedly, changed the specifications for work when the scientific data came in and proved their assumptions wrong and they still proceed in this folly without concern for any of my fellow Nevadans or those in neighboring states.
I urge everyone, new to the area or not, to continue to fight having this forced down our throats.