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Some Idaho people keen to host nuclear wastes?

It [Blue Ribbon Copmmission]wants a new organization solely dedicated to waste management with the power and access to the funds to succeed.

It urged the U.S. to continue its leadership in international waste and nonproliferation issues. And it wants to reconsider long term geologic storage options like Yucca Mountain. But it also proposed a stable, long-term program to support research, development and demonstration of advanced reactor and fuel cycle technologies and supporting workforce development, subjects near and dear to people in eastern Idaho around the Idaho National Laboratory……

Idaho groups seek to influence nuclear waste future decisions Voices IdahoStatesman.com  by Rocky Barker , 09/12/2011 “……nationally U.S. reactors have generated 65,000 metric tons of spent fuel, of which 75 percent is stored in pools, according to Nuclear Energy Institute data. A spent fuel rod gives off enough radiation to kill people a foot away in a matter of seconds.

With 30 million rods sitting in pools like those that failed at the ill-fated Fukushima Dai-Ichi plants in Japan, this is a problem now and in the future. So the work of the Obama appointed Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future became even more important.

These issues are important here too because any spent fuel shipped around the Northwest will come through Idaho on roads and rails, perhaps right through Boise.

It released a draft report at the end of July. The commission is currently in the middle of a series of public meetings designed to give states, tribes and the public a chance to comment on its conclusions and recommendations.

One of those meetings will be Tuesday in Denver and several Idaho contingents are expected to participate. It proposes an immediate new process to find consolidated interim storage facilities along with a new long term storage siting process.

The commission proposed the search processes be “consent-based” as opposed to the processed developed in the 1970s and 1980s that ended up forcing Yucca Mountain on Nevada. It wants a new organization solely dedicated to waste management with the power and access to the funds to succeed.

It urged the U.S. to continue its leadership in international waste and nonproliferation issues. And it wants to reconsider long term geologic storage options like Yucca Mountain. But it also proposed a stable, long-term program to support research, development and demonstration of advanced reactor and fuel cycle technologies and supporting workforce development, subjects near and dear to people in eastern Idaho around the Idaho National Laboratory……

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/12/rockybarker/idaho_groups_seek_influence_nuclear_waste_future_decisions

September 13, 2011 - Posted by | general

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