Our ever disingenuous Hussein Obama said he’s in favor of nuclear power in his state of the union speech, yet he has his Secretary of Energy Steven Chu withdraw the Yucca Mountain license application. This was all of a sudden. Brian O’Connell of the Regulatory Utility Commissioners is calling foul: after over 8000 pages of data showing the suitability of Yucca as a repository filed by the Energy Department, “so the fact the same agency now says it’s not a workable option begs for more detail.” The withdrawal request “was very skimpy as to why.”
The Regulatory Utility Commissioners have filed a brief before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board challenging the Obama action. Of course Obama thinks nothing of wasting the $10 billion already spent on Yucca or for that matter the $17 billion already paid by ratepayers into the federal waste fund. See Rebecca Smith’s WSJ report, Utility Regulators Want Yucca Open.
Methinks Harry Reid is having his way with Obama on this one; he’s hurting Nevada in the process; see the arguments at NV4CFE.org.