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RE: John Jerry editorial on Yucca Mountain
Gas prices in my area are around $1.99 per gallon ..... about 50% below the price in England or France or Germany or ......
Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
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[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:32 PM
To: Flanigan, Floyd; Scoggins, Frank S.; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: John Jerry editorial on Yucca Mountain
I have nothing against a politician, or anyone else,
changing their mind. What I worry about is being lead
into the path of an on-coming train.
I also agree with Ruth, this election will not be
based on nuclear power or nuclear waste disposal. It
will be the economy. By the way, how are the gas
prices where you are?
--- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>
wrote:
> In what little experience I have had with Kerry, he
> will change his position with the direction of the
> political wind several times before he settles on
> what everyone else wants him to think. Let's face
> it, the guy's about as obsequious as they come.
>
> Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf
> Of John Jacobus
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: Scoggins, Frank S.; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: John Jerry editorial on Yucca Mountain
>
>
> Interesting note:
>
> "Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny
> Guinn, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged he
> would
> approve a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain
> only if it was scientifically proven to be safe and
> secure. But before his first year in office was
> over,
> President Bush changed his position and approved the
> plan . . ."
>
> I wonder what Al Gore would have done? I wonder
> what
> John Kerry will do if elected?
>
> --- "Scoggins, Frank S." <FSSCOGGI@SOUTHERNCO.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > John Kerry guest editorial on Yucca Mountain
> > This is not a joke. It was in the Sunday Edition
> of
> > the Las Vegas Review
> >
> > Journal. Use link below to get to page.
> >
> >
>
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-16-Sun-2004/opinion/2388
> > 9849.html
> >
> > Not on my watch
> >
> > Candidate says Yucca a non-starter if he's elected
> >
> > By JOHN KERRY
> > SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > One of the biggest environmental and security
> > challenges facing Nevadans
> > is
> > the threat that Yucca Mountain will be turned into
> > the nation's nuclear
> > waste dump. I voted against the plan to dispose of
> > waste at Yucca
> > Mountain
> > -- and as president I will fight against it.
> >
> > Four years ago in a letter to Nevada Gov. Kenny
> > Guinn, then-candidate
> > George
> > W. Bush pledged he would approve a nuclear waste
> > repository at Yucca
> > Mountain only if it was scientifically proven to
> be
> > safe and secure. But
> >
> > before his first year in office was over,
> President
> > Bush changed his
> > position and approved the plan -- placing the
> > profits of the nuclear
> > power
> > industry above the safety of Nevada families.
> >
> > Today George Bush is still trying to move forward
> > with this misguided
> > plan,
> > despite the overwhelming opposition from Nevadans
> > and the scientific
> > evidence that it is unsafe.
> >
> > Two major scientific bodies have sounded alarms
> > about Yucca Mountain.
> > First,
> > an independent commission advising Congress on
> Yucca
> > Mountain determined
> >
> > that the metal to be used for the waste containers
> > would corrode,
> > leaking
> > nuclear radiation into the surrounding
> environment.
> > The Bush
> > administration
> > knew this when it approved the Yucca Mountain
> site,
> > but unfortunately
> > ignored it.
> >
> > Second, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) --
> > the final judge of
> > whether a safe waste repository can be built at
> > Yucca Mountain --
> > recently
> > warned the Department of Energy that its proposed
> > license to build Yucca
> >
> > Mountain was in inadequate shape. Apparently,
> > despite billions of
> > dollars
> > and decades of research, DOE still lacks the
> > technical and scientific
> > information required to even submit the license
> > application for review.
> > The
> > department's inability to produce information
> > supporting the safety of
> > the
> > project speaks volumes.
> >
> > Despite this scientific evidence, the Bush
> > administration is rushing to
> > meet
> > an arbitrary, self-imposed deadline of December
> > 2004. The risks are
> > tragically clear. In January, we learned that
> > workers who dug a test
> > tunnel
> > at Yucca were exposed to hazardous dust and
> mineral
> > hazards. Evidence
> > shows
> > that the Bush administration was aware of these
> > risks and the procedures
> >
> > required to protect them. But pressure to keep the
> > project on schedule
> > pushed safety into the back seat. Tragically, many
> > of these workers are
> > now
> > sick.
> >
> > It's a shame that the Bush administration has put
> > the financial
> > interests of
> > the nuclear industry above the health and safety
> of
> > DOE workers and
> > Nevadans. I believe there is a better way to
> secure
> > Nevada's health,
> > environmental and financial well-being. That
> > includes putting a stop to
> > the
> > dump once and for all.
> >
> >
> >
> > John Kerry, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, is
> > the presumptive
> > Democratic
> > presidential nominee.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
>
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
>
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"We cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
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