While Sen. Harry Reid continues to declare the Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel repository dead, the project moved yet another step forward yesterday when the Department of Energy (DOE) officially selected the Caliente route for shipments to Yucca.
Yucca “Fantasy” is in Reality a Reality
Joe Strolin – soon to be ex-executive director Bob Loux’s right-hand man over at the Nuclear Waste Project Office (NWPO) - wrote the following in a letter to the Nevada Appeal which was published last June 13th:
Oversight vs. Opposition
It seems that every time Sen. Harry Reid declares Yucca Mountain dead, as he did again in a conference call with reporters last week over the Bob Loux brouhaha, the project takes another step forward. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final radiation protection standard for the planned spent fuel repository, another of the final steps toward licensing the project by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Running Scared
It seems that despite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continually declaring the Yucca Mountain spent fuel repository project dead, the anti-nuke crowd is running scared these days - especially with the licensing process moving full speed ahead and with the head of the Nuclear Waste Project Office, Bob Loux, resigning after being caught with his fingers in the taxpayers’ cookie jar. Here’s the text of an automated phone message I received last week…
SAGE Advice
Gov. Jim Gibbon’s SAGE (Spending and Government Efficiency) Commission published a list of recommendations last week designed to make government more “efficient.” Not smaller; more efficient. Indeed, the only real “cut” recommended was the closure of the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.
Bob Loux’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
The Commission on Nuclear Projects met yesterday to consider the fate of Bob Loux, executive director of the Nuclear Waste Project Office who gave himself and his staff unconscionable and unauthorized pay raises which broke his budget. Mr. Loux stood before the assembled commissioners and…blamed the whole thing on former Gov. Kenny Guinn.
Wow. What a stand-up guy.
How Low will Anti-Yucca Crowd Go?
On Thursday, I wrote a column about the intellectual dishonesty exhibited by Bob Loux, the Nuclear Waste Project Office he heads, and anti-Yucca Mountain crusaders in general. I included this sentence: “Equally dishonest is the habit of mislabeling anyone who merely suggests we have a more open, neutral discussion of the repository as ‘pro-Yucca’ in an effort to demean, belittle, denigrate and demonize the person.”
Time for Loux to Go, and Take NWPO with Him
Bob Loux, executive director of the Nuclear Waste Project Office (NWPO), was recently caught with his sticky little fingers in the cookie jar. Turns out the man has been giving himself a lot more in pay raises than anyone knew about or approved. This isn’t an unsubstantiated allegation, mind you. Loux admitted to this malfeasance in office on September 9, 2008, at a meeting of the Interim Finance Committee where he asked the Legislature to cover a half-million dollar shortfall in his budget due to his actions.
Lucky Loux’s Looney Lawyer
Just a quick follow-up on yesterday’s court decision allowing anti-nuke propagandist Bob Loux to keep his job…for now.
Fun with Dick and Bob
Dick Bryan - the former governor-turned-senator who now chairs the Nevada Nuclear Projects Commission - is the man who initially hired Bob Loux to head up the Nuclear Waste Projects Office. And here’s some of what Loux’s boss had to say about Loux giving himself and his staff unauthorized pay raises in an interview last week with Jon Ralston on “Face to Face.”
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