Daily Caller: was Yucca Mountain shutdown lawful?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 11:00 AM  | 

The DC has the scoop*: Congress is now investigating whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) actually had the authority to unilaterally shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility without Congressional authorization, given that Yucca Mountain was authorized under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.  Furthermore, there are now serious questions about whether the NRC’s leadership – and, by extension, the Obama administration – | Read More »

What the ban on Yucca Mountain reminds us.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 5th at 11:30 PM  | 

I do like what Francis wrote, but I want to really drive it home to my people – which is to say, science fiction geeks. Let me strip this down for you. There was a quote that Jerry Pournelle likes to repeat, from one of the anti-nuclear power people: “The only physics I ever took was Ex-Lax.“ Remember that one? Remember how it made you | Read More »