Friday, May 8, 2009

Obama sounds death knell for nuclear power

AMERICAN THINKER, 5/8/2009 by Richard Henry Lee - Under the guise of cutting wasteful spending, President Obama is terminating support for the Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel repository in Nevada. While not unexpected, this development means that there will be no place to store nuclear waste, probably for decades, other than at temporary storage locations at each of the nation's nuclear power plants. ∴ This termination decision was one among several contained in a document titled "Terminations, Reductions, and Savings" which were announced today by the White House to cut $17 Billion from the FY2010 budget. Read more at American Thinker...

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