$13.5 billion so Harry Reid can now grow mushrooms

by SamCogar Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:26 am

WASHINGTON - Driving a last nail into a $13.5 billion coffin, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday that the nearly completed Yucca Mountain site in Nevada is no longer an option for storing highly radioactive nuclear waste.

Instead, Chu said, the Obama administration believes the nearly 60,000 tons of waste in the form of used reactor fuel can remain at nuclear power plants while a new, comprehensive plan for waste disposal is developed.

Chu's remarks touched off a sometimes testy exchange with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., President Barack Obama's rival for the White House last year, and provided the most definitive signal yet that the government's attempt to address the commercial nuclear waste problem is veering in a dramatically new direction.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29534497/

by **Stephanie** Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:59 am

Maybe they can store it in the basement of the Chu family home.

$13.5 billion so Harry Reid can now grow mushrooms

$13.5 billion so Harry Reid can now grow mushrooms

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