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Sun Apr-25-10 03:10 PM
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| Just a reminder: Thanks to Ronald Reagan we the taxpayers own commercial spent nuclear fuel |
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Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 03:12 PM by jpak
Yup - the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 was passed by the ASSHOLE '80's GOP Congress and signed by Reagan to privatize the profits of nuclear power and socialize the financial liabilities of disposing spent fuel.
The Nuclear Waste Fund (a 1 mil/kwh tax on nuclear electricity) will ultimately produce $28 billion dollars.
The last cost estimate for the now defunct spent fuel depository at Yucca Mountain NV was $100+ billion.
WHO PICKS UP THE TAB FOR THE REST OF THE COST????
we do!
Thank you Ronald Reagan and the GOP for killing the infant solar energy industry in the early 80's
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giving us the gift that keeps on taking and taking and taking....
spent nuclear fuel.
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