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Obama’s Nuclear Waste
So much for campaign promises.
President Obama claims he wants to transform America’s energy economy away from the fossil fuels that presently provide the lion’s share of our energy. He talks about investing tens of billions of dollars for renewable energy technology research and development and to create a “smart” electricity grid. He pushes for a costly cap-and-trade system, while promising the creation of millions of new green jobs. All of this is designed to curb the greenhouse gas emissions he claims imperil the planet.
So why does his administration show hostility to the one technology that can provide reliable, industrial-size amounts of energy while emitting absolutely no carbon dioxide? If Obama is genuinely concerned about slashing emissions, then his antagonism toward nuclear power makes no sense.
Two examples have emerged recently giving credence to the notion that Obama’s energy policies are crafted to appease certain constituencies rather than effect the transformation to a post-carbon economy.
The first came two weeks ago when the Department of Energy abruptly turned down USEC, Inc.’s application for a $2 billion loan guarantee to help it finish building an advanced uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. The plant was already under construction. Officials had every reason to believe the federal loan guarantee that would help nail down additional private funding was coming. After all, during the campaign last year Obama pledged his “full support” to the enrichment facility project. He promised, “I will work with the Department of Energy to help make loan guarantees available for this and other advanced energy programs that reduce carbon emissions.”
So much for campaign promises. In late July the Obama Administration instructed USEC to withdraw its application, saying the company had failed to prove the enrichment technology was commercially viable. As a result, USEC announced it was demobilizing the project, and many employees could lose their jobs.
The Obama team’s explanation for its decision is mystifying. USEC’s program was already well along, having secured the necessary construction and operating licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2007. More than that, the project’s centrifuges have already undergone more than 150,000 machine hours of tests to enable researchers to hone designs and improve reliability. These have been successful enough for the company to finalize design and begin seeking components from manufacturers. USEC had all its ducks in a row to help provide low-enriched uranium to the 21st century nuclear energy marketplace, yet Obama’s Department of Energy (DOE) called its efforts “failed.”
Even more insulting, one day after denying USEC’s $2 billion loan guarantee request, DOE announced it will provide $30 billion in loan guarantees for extremely speculative renewable energy projects to harness wind and solar power. Considering the billions of dollars in additional subsidies DOE gives for alternative energy research and production, it seems anybody with a half-baked idea who goes hat-in-hand to Washington will get a check. But a proven commercial technology like that demonstrated by USEC gets the rug pulled out from under because it is associated with nuclear power. That may please anti-nuclear green activists who voted in droves for Obama, but it obviously won’t help America solve its future energy problems.
The decision to deny the loan guarantee drew ferocious condemnation from USEC, which figured it should be able to count on the president’s word. It also drew widespread public criticism from a range of Ohio politicians. Surprised by the blowback — and realizing perhaps that a fair number of job losses in a critical swing state could be directly pinned on the Obama team — the Energy Department relented and announced several days later that it will delay a final decision for six months. Expect to see an announcement half a year from now congratulating USEC for making the necessary improvements in the project to qualify for the loan guarantee. Given the reaction to the initial decision, it makes far less sense for Obama to continue with this particular sop to the green lobby. Better to save face — and jobs — and find other ways to appease the anti-nuclear left. That’s how politics works. It’s understandable, but it doesn’t give much confidence that the president’s team takes the nation’s energy challenges all that seriously.
At roughly the same time the Obama Administration reneged on his campaign promise to USEC, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was crowing that the White House privately has assured him it will eliminate funding for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository by 2011. The idea is to hamstring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ability to complete its independent scientific assessment of Yucca Mountain’s suitability to store high-level nuclear waste.
Obama is trying to kill Yucca Mountain by a thousand cuts. Unfortunately, he has not proposed any alternative for secure waste storage, aside from a promise to convene a blue-ribbon panel of experts to study an issue which the government has already spent tens of billions of dollars studying. Spent fuel continues to accumulate in temporary pools outside the nation’s 104 commercial nuclear reactors. Without any sort of resolution, some reactors eventually may be forced to shut down when their temporary facilities are filled. How that will help curb greenhouse gas emissions is unclear. But at least the White House has a happy Harry Reid on its side.
Obama promised at his Inaugural to restore science to its rightful place. When it comes to nuclear power, however, Obama’s politics kick science to the curb.
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Richard Baker| 8.11.09 @ 7:18AM
Rush said that Obama's words should have an expiration date. True, 'tis true. Sat Cong.
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Melvin| 8.11.09 @ 7:27AM
The only way we are going to get any meaningful energy Independence is to kick out environmentalism to the curb.
Common sense environmentalism has been take over by extreme left wing political organizations that were created by....? If you hadn't guessed it, the politicians.
The environmental movement has become the movement of, "NO." No fossil fuels, no nuclear, no wind-farms, (at least not near the Kennedy compound in Mass.), no solar, no nothing.
There are many areas within this Country that are practical to nuclear, solar, fossil fuels, and wind.
One energy that may not work in one area but will in another can't be explored because environmentalism stands in the way with they're arms outstretched, braying in unison, "No, not here, not now, not ever."
Private energy producing companies as well as start-ups of alternative energy cannot afford to to wait for 20 or more years, while the environmental movement keeps moving the goal posts every time these companies get the necessary permits and licenses and then a new requirement is thrown in that is normally followed by the usual lawsuits that ties the whole process up to the point that everyone forgets what the original intent of the lawsuit was.
That is the intent of the lawsuits by the environmentalists is to drive a company legal costs up to the point that the company says, "To hell with it, we'll take our idea overseas."
If we are to advance all forms of energy into something that all Americans can afford, we need to march the environmental movement off the cliff with the rest of the mindless Lemmings.
Tim| 8.11.09 @ 8:39AM
That guy would have said he was for Krypotonite power if it would have captured the Legion of Doom vote.
Tom Kauffman| 8.11.09 @ 9:06AM
Well said. Apparently the commitment that decisions on scientific issues must be based in science doesn't apply to nuclear energy. Mystifying!
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owyheewine| 8.11.09 @ 9:15AM
To Melvin
I have additional ideas on how and where we should kick the environmentalist nuts, who by the way often are using government funds to further their agenda.
Melvin| 8.11.09 @ 9:25AM
Speaking of Kryptonite, has anyone noticed that tax receipts are at they're lowest level in 1932?
This is how we the unwashed masses can control Govzilla.
Sure it creates a hardship on private enterprise and us, but if we want to see government flop around like a dying cockroach because government doesn't haven't enough tax receipts to pay for all these government programs and all we have to do is stop buying stuff, and reduce our spending to the absolute minimum, then lets do it.
Reduced spending on our part is like a can of Raid to a government bureaucrat.
Dave M.| 8.11.09 @ 10:20AM
Obama and the left do not want solutions, they only want issues. Issues to use as "moral" cudgels to bash opponents with. Education reform - how about vouchers - no way says the left. Lower our dependence on foreign oil and natural gas - let's drill for our own - preposterous says the left. We need to reduce our carbon emmissions - how about nuclear power - absolutely not says the left.
The left does not want to solve anything. Their empty ideas depend on a constant state of fear. Solutions might alleivate some of that fear, thus, there can be no solutions.
L. Ross| 8.11.09 @ 11:05AM
Why is it that we can have nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines, but we can't have a small nuclear power plant in every small town across America? And as far as nuclear waste goes, why aren't we investigating deep sea bed disposal?
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Dixie Pixie| 8.11.09 @ 11:52AM
Why are you bothering to complain about Obama reneging on a campaign promise. Only the conservatives consider words, sentences and speeches to be a verbal contract. Liberals are trained to consider language to be artwork. So for a liberal a campaign promise is to be appreciated is a poem. Liberals never consider a campaign promise a verbal contract. Did you not know liberals consider such promises “boob bait for bubbas”. So it does not trouble the Liberal-Dominion that their politicians lie constantly. The liberal politicians are judged on the “beauty” of their words and the degree the public is fooled. Trying to hold a liberal politician to their word is a waste of time and effort. The liberals will just laugh at idea a campaign promise is a verbal contract.
Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 1:05PM
again (and again). So many are relieved Bush is gone-- the same relief felt in '93.
what of '12? another Rino because the GOP is so compromised.
Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 1:08PM
sorry; RINO, not Rino.
we're a zoo, but not that sort of zoo.
Matt| 8.11.09 @ 1:25PM
Why aren't we sinking money into ways of reprocessing nuclear waste? I've read that many researchers are close to reprocessing much of the waste. Eventually we want to run our economy on Hydrogen. So, hybrid nuclear plants are a must. Use the nuclear to generate the hydrogen. Otherwise Hydrogen takes too much energy input in relation to output.
gene Hauber| 8.11.09 @ 1:39PM
I just fell off a turnip truck on the way into town.
My gawd, its a good thing this obama character isn't our president, can you imagine the pickle we would be in with a guy like him in charge....what a double dealing creep.
Nuke Man| 8.11.09 @ 1:40PM
Obama is anti-nuke. Period.
Don't forget that one of his other actions was to name a former Harry Reid staffer to be chairman of NRC. This truly ensured that an unbiased review of Yucca Mountain by NRC would be impossible, but, for good measure, Obama also cut off the funding for that review so that it would never take place.
Think he may be afraid that the NRC review might show that Yucca Mountain will be perfectly safe?
Don| 8.11.09 @ 1:59PM
When has obama ever told the truth or kept a promise? His whole being and his words a proven over and over to be without merit. His right to be the leader of this country is based on lies and questionable qualifications.
B Mused| 8.11.09 @ 2:03PM
For L. Ross in response:
1. We should ask what the cost effectiveness of small reactors of size of nuclear subs and carriers compared to industry preference for 1,000 MW or more. PS: Sub reactors must meet much more rugged requirements than land-based reactors.
2. Deep seabed disposal has some technology/cost issues as well as international law that we don't own the seabed.
Gregory Cragg| 8.11.09 @ 2:32PM
I have thee solution for an international nuclear and radioactive repository costing less than Yucca mountain to build and maintain, taking less than two years to build, answering the related problems, earth quake safe, terrorism safe, leakage, corrosion, expense, site or sites needed, as well this solution is simple and works extremely well.
I would have thought the USDOE when I offered this to them would have jumped at it as they have really nothing but 104 spent fuel temporary pools sitting outside the 104 commercial reactors. 161 million US citizens live within 75 miles from these pools--a very precarious position for the United States or at least 161 million peoples and the future of the states where these pools are located contaminated with radioactive particles for a million years.
Marc Jeric| 8.11.09 @ 2:34PM
Environmentalism is a CULT OF DEATH. Eco-nazis want to reduce the global population to about one billion (which is "sustainable") from the present 6 billion. What is needed for all of us to survive is TORT REFORM, i.e. "loser pays" system as it exists in all the civilized countries of the world. Why do we have here 1,100,000 lawyers and Great Britain, Japan, and Germany together only 35,000?
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JimE| 8.11.09 @ 6:08PM
Dave M is correct, the left does seek solution only issue. Ted the murdering drunk Kennedy spent forty years dragging out the health care issue each election. After he won it was quietly put back into his bag of scams.
Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 7:25PM
look, Obama is antinuke because so many Americans are antinuke. you know it-- don't always be so coy. Don't hide America's preferences in the verbiage.
And what did Bush do for nuclear power? how many nuke facilities did Cheney propose in WY?
NIMBY is alive and well.
this is an important 'issue'; and, always remember, some of us are conservatives, not Republicans.
Mike| 8.11.09 @ 9:03PM
NIMBY my ...
Build one in my backyard. And I am not talking in my area. IN MY BACKYARD.
Environmentalist idiots have killed more people than all the nuclear accidents and atomic bomb drops combined.
This is not about energy (or health care...) it is about conrol. The confrontation is brewing and it will be ugly.
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defeated pigs| 8.11.09 @ 9:27PM
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Braced for a fight he never got, President Barack Obama went on the offensive in support of his health care plan Tuesday, urging a town hall audience not to listen to those who seek to "scare and mislead the American people."
"For all the scare tactics out there, what is truly scary is if we do nothing," Obama told a friendly crowd of about 1,800 in a high school auditorium and a nationwide audience watching on cable television.
The White House had been ready for an unruly reception from opponents of overhauling health care. There was no sign of that, perhaps because of the makeup of the day's crowd or out of traditional deference for the president.
GG | 8.12.09 @ 12:23AM
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Andrew| 8.12.09 @ 10:52AM
Max has swallowed USEC's PR hook, line, and sinker. USEC's ACP has not met the statutory and regulatory requirements set by Congress. USEC should thank the supporters of the Recovery Act, which made possible the extension of the loan application deadline. Obama and Sec. of Energy Chu are far from "anti-nuclear."
Richard Baker| 8.12.09 @ 12:05PM
Remember:
The FRENCH generate 70-80% of their power from nuclear. They use a standardized reactor design and tight enforcement of it's use. We invented nuclear reactors and can't outdo the FRENCH? Hamlet said" First thing, Let's kill all the Lawyers". "Aye, that's the rub".
Jim Turner| 8.12.09 @ 10:47PM
NIMBY solution: When building a nuke plant, offer free electricity for 15 years to every residence within say 5 miles / site of the plant. That should cost the power company less than the lawyer fees for the never-ending court fights with the NIMBYs!
Nuke| 8.13.09 @ 9:18AM
Andrew - Obama and Chu are far from "anti-nuclear"? I guess that's why they shut down Yucca mountain...We know who's PR hook you've swallowed.
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Jeremy| 8.13.09 @ 3:19PM
I agree that nuclear power needs to be pursued. But the USEC situation discussed in this article is misleading. USEC is a corporation that has been receiving indirect government subsidies for years and even at the time of its creation by the government in 1998 USEC received the governments advanced laser enrichment technology (an investment of billions of dollars) for almost nothing. USEC promptly cancelled that project.
As for this new centrifuge program, USEC's costs for this facility have tripled from $1.8 billion to $5.4 in just five years. Also this article neglects to mention Urenco and Eurodif, two companies that are already constructing centrifuge facilities in Idaho and New Mexico. The government is still considering an application from Urenco.
As a company USEC has repeatedly proven itself unreliable whereas Eurodif and Urenco have been expanding and developing successfully for years, even in the face of U.S. import duties.
Jeremy| 8.13.09 @ 3:25PM
Also on the Yucca Mountain issue. That facility is built directly on a fault line, this occurred specifically because no environmental study was conducted before construction began, and Bush pushed it forward despite the enormous risk it posed.
Storage onsite at enrichment and nuclear facilities is still a temporary solution. A repository is needed but Yucca mountain is not the place. Nevada is not the place, it has too many earthquakes.
Richard Baker| 8.13.09 @ 8:41PM
Jeremy:
The entire Western US is full of fault lines, or hadn't you heard? Yucca Mountain is the best and remotest site available. Pray tell us, where is the perfect site, then?
Jeremy| 8.14.09 @ 2:58AM
Richard Baker: I live in California, I'm well aware of the seismic activity on the West coast. There's also no reason to be uncivil.
First of all, even by moving the repository to a location only a few miles from the fault line you can drastically reduce the risk of serious damage.
Secondly, I would suggest using our already existing infrastructure to our advantage. Decommissioned nuclear silos would provide excellent sites. There are over a thousand of them and each provides a large amount of storage space. Along with other abandoned Cold War facilities they were built to survive nuclear war and already have in place security systems and surveillance. Our nuclear waste fortunately is only on the order of a few thousand tonnes. Which is not all that much in the scheme of things.
These silos are easy to monitor, constructed to survive and last, and they are already built. Currently our waste sits onsite at Paducah and at Nuclear facilities, certainly these silos would be a better place for them.
Nuke| 8.14.09 @ 8:31AM
Urenco, Eurodif, Ereva. Do these sound like American companies to you? Don't you think it's wise to have American companies providing enriched Uranium to support America!!??? Why do we want to rely on France, Germany, and Asia to support our military and infrastructure? Haven't we learned ANYTHING from the oil industry? Jeremy, the jobs, profits, and technology should remain American. Why are you so ready to give taxpayer money to foreign entities? Our nuclear technology should be supported and developed by this country rather than rely upon and sell out this country to other countries.
Jeremy| 8.14.09 @ 1:50PM
Hey Nuke. Guess what. You know those f'rneirs? Those evil companies driving GM, Chrysler, and USEC out of business. Your Toyotas, your Hondas, your Arevas. Turns out Toyota, Honda, and Areva are providing thousands of jobs for Americans. The two proposed "foreign" centrifuge plants being build in the "USA" would each provide more jobs than the USEC centrifuge facility. Don't forget that USEC is going to close it's diffusion facility losing all those jobs anyway. The DOE actually did a job calculation and found that this avenue provides for the creation of over 1000 jobs and the maintenance of 1200 old ones for several more years. So don't try that "you don't care about the blue-collar man" B.S.
The real question is why do you want to give taxpayer money to an inefficient corporation that has made a career from stealing the people's money. The government is maintaining a gaseous diffusion facility on cold standby which can be restarted and produce 3.5 million SWUs if necessity demands so we're not putting ourselves at anyone's mercy.
Also, I assume you're a free-market advocate, how can you say you want Americans to pay the higher uranium enrichment prices of USEC instead of the European and Russian prices which are almost half the cost. And by the way, guess where the United States already gets half its uranium.........wait for it.........RUSSIA. That's right, half of the uranium used in U.S. reactors comes straight from the good 'ol commies. "But what about our national security" you cry, turns out we're getting more of it for cheaper prices from the Russians and the Europeans, USEC on the other hand tried suing the government to impose duties on foreign enriched uranium. They suceeded, but everyone still bought foreign uranium.
Richard Baker| 8.14.09 @ 4:03PM
Jeremy:
I wouldn't use the silos. Ever heard of the New Madrid Fault? There is no perfect place just as there are no perfect people. However, Yucca Mountain is the best and largest remote site found to date. Scattering this stuff all over the country would be a security nightmare.
Pluto Boy| 8.15.09 @ 9:11AM
Why in the world can't the nuclear industry stand on its own two feet? What should big government subsidize nuclear power and enrichment facilities? This "nuclear socialism" attitude is exactly what we need to halt along with other massive spending and subsidies. Fiscal conservatives get a grip and help stop this part of the socialist agenda.
Jeremy| 8.17.09 @ 12:44AM
RB: So you would invalidate hundreds of excellent sites because they are located within 500 hundred miles of a fault line but would like a facility directly on top of one. Also it's an acceptable security threat to store this material in lots all around the country with only barbed wire for protection (as is the case now). But unacceptable to store them in underground vaults that are already protected by layers of security and the national guard?
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BTW, the project is dead dead dead. The DOE has ordered the contractors to issue WARN Act notices to everyone. DOE people don’t do squat – they are merely overseerers of the real scientists and engineers who design the repository. Once the contractors are gone, Illinois will be stuck for the next 50 years with its nuclear waste.
When the first terrorist or natural event spreads radioactive waste across the state, who will the population blame? Reid and Obama of course – the ones that are still alive…
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allen | 3.4.11 @ 7:40AM
I wouldn't use the silos. Ever heard of the New Madrid Fault? There is no perfect place just as there are no perfect people. However, Yucca Mountain is the best and largest remote site found to date. Scattering this stuff all over the country would be a security nightmare.
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