Nuclear Power On Obama Hit List : Progressive Ideology Reigns

As with anything that has to do with energy in this country, if it isn't solar, wind or biofuel it must be outlawed as harmful to the environment. The Obama administration, and the progressive socialist democrats, are devoid of any common sense or reality intelligence. It's the ideology of control by the few.

Energy policy that wants to outlaw, eliminate oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear as a viable energy source explains the ideology and agenda that seeks to control all outcomes that might give the individual freedom to choose ones own destiny.

It begs to understand why Mr Obama would close the Yucca Mountain facility for nuclear waste after spending so much money and it is a workable site. In reality it isn't all that difficult, Mr Obama's agenda is clear, prosperity is the enemy of the progressive socialist.

Nuclear Waste Policy Needs Reform
Source: Katie Tubb and Jack Spencer, "Green Energy and Red Tape," Heritage Foundation, September 29, 2014.

October 1, 2014

As federal regulations lead to the closure of coal plants, the United States must find new ways to power its electric grid. Nuclear energy, writes Katie Tubb and Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation, is an inexpensive and reliable power source, yet government action has impeded its growth.

According to Tubb and Spencer, Nuclear waste management is the biggest problem facing the development of nuclear power. They explain the history behind waste disposal:

• Congress granted the Department of Energy authority over collection and disposal of nuclear waste in 1982.
• Congress planned to deposit waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The plan ran behind schedule.
• In 2010, President Obama ordered an end to the Yucca Mountain disposal program, despite having poured $15 billion of taxpayer funding into the project.
• This decision left facilities with more than 70,000 metric tons of nuclear waste sitting in storage, waiting for the Department of Energy to collect it.
• Many nuclear plant license approvals were halted because there was no set policy on waste collection.

According to the authors, the government should remove itself from the nuclear waste sector altogether, giving facilities control over managing their own waste and allowing private companies to develop innovative ways to deal with the problem. The government, say Tubb and Spencer, should focus on licensing, while allowing the market to develop new methods of nuclear waste management. A clear method of waste disposal, combined with a reliable regulatory environment, will allow the nuclear energy industry to grow.