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New Mexico Senate Bill 82 is making its way through the committee process; it calls for a state task force (on radioactive waste). I don’t have an opinion on the bill; however, I support the Holtec project, and here are my detailed reasons.
1. Why consolidated storage?
The 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act requires the government to store used fuel. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada was the designated site. That project stalled years ago without a clear path forward. Used fuel accumulates at power plants around the country, often close to large populations. The used fuel must be removed before those locations can be available for other purposes.
Bill Gates, while motivated to help fight climate change, has also long been trying to make a success of his nuclear technology company Terra Power. The climate emergency presents him with the perfect opportunity to promote this, and especially, to get tax–payer funding to do it, as he suggests in his new book.
Elon Musk and Bill Gates: beware of gurus toting solutions to climate change
Elon Musk has grand plans to save the world. Bill Gates has just published his book ”How To Avoid a Climate Disaster”. They both envisage tax-payer funding for their solutions. But beware of gurus toting the solution to the planet’s crisis.
Joe BidenBiden hampered by lack of confirmationsLouisiana special election to replace Richmond heads to runoffLarry Summers blasts .9 T stimulus as least responsible economic policy in 40 yearsMORE is signaling a team approach to the midterms. He’s installed top allies at the Democratic National Committee, and he’s holding off forming his own re-election bid until after the midterms, in part to avoid competing for the hard dollars his own side will need to defend its narrowest of majorities. “This is classic Joe Biden,” a member of Biden’s inner circle tells us. “He is not about himself. He is about helping others and that includes other Democrats.”
Double Negative,
The Art Newspaper reports. Visitors to the work, which consists of two fifty-foot-deep trenches spanning a remote natural canyon, would be greeted by the sight of the Battle Born Solar Project, which is slated to occupy some 9,000 acres atop the nearby Mormon Mesa.
“We have been told there would still be access to
Double Negative, but the power of the place would be lost forever,” says Lisa Childs, founder of the grassroots initiative Save Our Mesa, which is additionally protesting the development on the grounds that it would encroach on proximate archaeological sites and endanger local wildlife such as the desert tortoise. “Thousands of visitors flock to the Mormon Mesa each year. We are not against renewable energy but we feel it needs to be placed more responsibly.”