President Obama, on Inauguration Day:
We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.
We will restore science to its rightful place.
Now:
President Barack Obama is taking the first step toward blocking a nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain by slashing money for the program in his first budget, according to congressional sources.
(Via the Corner.)
Nuclear power is safe, clean, cost-effective, and (not to put too fine a point on it) actually exists. If the President were serious about green energy, he would be supporting nuclear power. Instead we’re getting a cynical political payoff to blatant NIMBYism.
The good news is that Yucca is a long-term project. It’s not due to open until 2017 as it is, so there’s time for a responsible administration to reverse this decision.
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