Brown Eyed Girl wrote on September 20, 2009 10:30 PM: I don't know who you are, abevanluik, but you are absolutely correct. Well said.

Governor Goodman wrote on September 20, 2009 10:00 AM:
Governor Goodman

Local_Voice wrote on September 20, 2009 08:56 AM: As far as Yucca goes, my first thought, instinct even, was that they were going to do this no matter what so we should get as much financial benefit out of it as possible.

(For instance, free electricity for all Nevadans, special scholarships for the kids, school funding, whatever)

However, voting for the dump was political suicide. We'll see how this plays out. I'm betting that we get the dump and we don't get sh**t for our troubles because of the politicians.

As a side note, storing the waste doesn't scare me. The fact that they have to transport it here does. Have you seen how people drive here? That's all we need, a radioactive truck in a head-on on I-15 at Tropicana.

abevanluik wrote on September 20, 2009 08:29 AM: "We keep killing it," said Bruce Breslow, . . . "And it keeps coming back, like a bad zombie movie."

Actually Breslow has not killed a thing. It is a certain Senator who has talked a certain President into starving it to death. And it was that same cast of characters that once upon a time promised to let it continue its licensing process.

Until, of course, it began to look like the independent agency reviewing the license application might actually find it safe if built as proposed, so then the strategy was changed. The new strategy is to slow down and then stop the licensing review before that potential result is scheduled to come out.

It is very important to make sure the city council is not swayed by the empty office space and abandoned homes that could have been filled with Yucca workers, as they were a year ago. It is very important for these city officials to keep up their opposition to a proven and shovel-ready diversification project that could be employing construction workers right now on its railroad and other infrastructure improvements that were once scheduled.

This opposition is self-inflicted economic damage to the state. It is wholly unnecessary. The risk presented by Yucca was very low, now and in future, compared with real risks faced daily on Nevada roads, in its mines, and on its construction sites.

I'd love for my state of Nevada to say to the rest of the nation: "as a public service to the nation we will take this waste, 125,000 metric tons of it, and here is the list of things you will do for us in terms of infrastructure improvements and long-term educational and economic diversification programs."

That would make very good economic sense.