Nuclear Waste Stops New Plants Cold

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Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants in a generation.

I was wondering when this would hit the fan. Obama and chums can go 'la, la la', and keep Yuk-yuk Mountain barely alive enough to legally exist. Then they can keep all the old laws about federal responsibility for nuclear waste and all that. But, will anybody believe them?

The truth is: that new nuclear plant by the river, upstream from a major city, will keep it's nuclear waste in rusty barrels forever and ever. Are they getting wise to that?

Volcano in Hamilton

I'm so close to that movie deal, I can taste it! I'm going to have to take a pill to calm down! I actually talked to a guy from London, with an English accent, no less! Wow!

A giant volcano starts to rise in Hamilton.... People scream: "Oh no, it's a volcano!".

I'll actually miss a few good things in Hamilton. My daughter, for one, will have to find a new university. And I really like that pub beside her new house. Other than that... nah!

I wrote a poem:

Hamilton, 'twas a nice town.

It was there, now it's gone.

ps. there is actually some reality behind all this, but this is the best you'll get.... :)

No Date for Lepreau

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Coffin said until AECL is certain it has solutions to problems found during the project, they won't issue a new target date for completion.

The pressure tubes have to be crimped around the end fittings. You can't use glue here! But this is good old 60's technology, and they can't seem to do it anymore. This could be major-major, such as the wrong metal for the pressure tubes. NB should just build a new reactor to forget about this little problem... :)