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I was right, Obama is not serious about nuclear power

When Barry touted nuclear energy during his State of the Union speech I said it surprised and pleased me, but knowing him it was probably just a throw-away line and he wouldn't follow through.

Yup. I was right.

In his 2011 budget to be announced tomorrow Barry has "zeroed out" all funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility in Nevada. In addition, he intends to pull the project's pending license application, thereby completely killing it.

Without a place to store our nation's nuclear waste it is highly unlikely that any new nuclear power plants will be approved in the forseeable future. And all the existing waste will remain in hundreds of ad hoc holding areas rather than in one secure location, giving more ammunition to the no-nukes nuts.

But, so that Barry can pretend he's doing something we'll get a "high-level Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future". Oh, yea. They'll start from square one, take decades to make any kind of recommendation, and then the NIMBYs will start their legal battles all over again.

America needs leadership on nuclear energy. We needed statesmen, and instead we got Barack Obama and Harry Reid.

Posted at 19:05 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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