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Originally Posted by darcane
I see your caveat 2 and 3 as being contradictory...
The NRC has a history of being obstructionist to nuclear energy production in general, particularly the chair Gregory Jaczko. In order to support nuclear energy in the short term, you have to have a secure place to store spent fuel. NRC has effectively killed the Yucca Mountain storage facility and redacted all their documents made public through FOIA related to it. If they are given more authority, it will likely eliminate nuclear energy in the US altogether.
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Good point; the NRC fails on both counts: it is holding back the building of newer safer plants, while turning a blind eye to gross safety and health violations at existing plants.
As for Yucca Mountain, I oppose it too, but only because we shouldn't be throwing that stuff away. We should be reprocessing it and reusing it. By burying it in Yucca Mountain, essentially where we'll never be able to get at it again, we're throwing away perfectly good fuel.