gatorfan
2009-04-01 19:46:28
What isn’t being mentioned here is that consumers have been paying a 1 mill/kilowatt hour surcharge for electricity generated from a nuclear power plant into a fund known as the “Nuclear Waste Fund”. These payments have been paid to fund Yucca Mountain for 20 years and Congress keeps spending it on other stuff!
Then you have Sen. Harry Reid throwing roadblocks at Yucca Mountain at every possible turn.
It’s sad to see the NIMBY crowd stifle a safe, reliable (20% of the nations electrical generation capacity) energy industry.
Hey, I’m all for solar and wind generation too. By the way has anyone driven past a solar or wind field lately and seen how much acreage is required for even a paltry amount of generation capability?
