Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-doh-nuclear-waste-facility-edition

58 23 1 year ago

aaaand we're here

This is my biggest concern. When jackass Rick Perry said years ago he wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy, I expected this would be a talking point republicans would stick to. Because it got their voters excited. The uneducated hear "Department of Energy" and they think "these people are make my gas and electricity more expensive". When their actual job is safeguarding nuclear weapons. This might just be more grandstanding, but it's not good.

apical_dendrite• 1 year ago

Rick Perry famously had a list of three departments that he wanted to eliminate, but after naming the first two, he forgot what the third one was. It was the department of energy. So of course that's the department Trump put him in charge of. He was reportedly shocked to learn that he had been put in charge of the nation's nuclear weapons. He wanted to eliminate the department of energy despite having absolutely no idea what it does. Par for the course these days.

yongjik• 1 year ago

Rick Perry famously had a list of three departments that he wanted to eliminate, but after naming the first two, he forgot what the third one was.

And that sank his presidential campaign right there. Just think about it. This guy just forgot about his big policy proposal - he had a policy, he didn't constantly change it, he didn't even lie about it, he just forgot about it for a second in the heat of the moment. That sank his campaign.

What a simpler time it had been.

torlok• 1 year ago

Whatever this hose of bullshit strategy is, it's probably working because I'm already tired of venting through mocking comments.

Xunjin• 1 year ago

Are the mocking comments wrong? This decision does not make sense at all and sometimes, only mockery is the way to make some sense/humor.

gunian• 1 year ago

launch it into space like in futurama

MaxfordAndSons• 1 year ago

Smart. Could definitely find a more efficient private operator to handle this. I've heard good things about one Charles Montgomery Burns out of Springfield, he'd be just the man to do this important work.

formerly_proven• 1 year ago

"I don't even know how he caused a meltdown, there was no fissile material on site"

MrMcCall• 1 year ago

"Some people just want to watch the world burn." --Bale's Batman's Alfred

I suppose most of them probably don't even know they're evil.

Of course, Alfred's story was about an Indian man sabotaging the British Empire's operation, so -- now that I think about it -- the guy was probably just interested in watching the BE burn, so the analogy is not so clear cut, in either direction.

Anyway, you get my point.

We're supposed to be drug tested to get a software engineering job, but that idiot can be on adderall and ketamine and God-knows-what-else?

Remember, those wicked Germans of the 1930s and 40s were pretty big on meth, and their dear leader liked to speedball it with morphine.

Red flags should be flying, y'all!

killerteddybear• 1 year ago

Oh, awesome, that sounds super safe and responsible. I'm a huge fan of nuclear power but this type of shit is how you kill support for it.

amelius• 1 year ago

It becomes clearer every day how the Fermi paradox should be resolved.

r0ckarong• 1 year ago

And then just dump it in the national parks. Nobody there to complain anymore.

verzali• 1 year ago

Why is the government leasing nuclear waste storage? Who would offer a lease that lets you dump nuclear waste on your land? Surely this is the kind of thing you buy land for, not rent it.

eesmith• 1 year ago

From the first and second paragraphs:

a 90,000 square foot facility which manages the nation’s only storage area for DOD-created nuclear waste and the only operating deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the world ...
An additional point: it’s not the deep geologic underground place where they store it. Not sure you’re invest in building that and then just see if there’s anyone who’d want to lease it. It’s the facility where they process the nuclear waste before putting it in the super deep nuclear storage hole.

WarOnPrivacy• 1 year ago

The NOTUS article that (I think) first reported on this-> https://archive.ph/lcoYN

sapphicsnail2• 1 year ago

Wow, that article is a lot more clear

spants• 1 year ago

Do you think that the expenditure was not correctly described on the system, hence the "cancellation"?

unsnap_biceps• 1 year ago

No. I think DOGE expected a different descriptions then the systems used and, rather then adapting, are okay with moving ahead and then pulling back when their is enough of an uproar.

sapphicsnail2• 1 year ago

Wikipedia article about WIPP, the storage facility overseen by the group that might be axed. I'm not sure if the lease being cancelled is for the office of the team monitoring the site or if it includes the actual storage facility as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

watwut• 1 year ago

Flagged, interesting which stories gets flaged

quantified• 1 year ago

Strategy might be:

1) Break everything

2) Fix things that people complain enough about.

Everything else wasn't sufficiently important, for some definition of sufficient.

ChrisArchitect• 1 year ago

Related update earlier:

Trump Agency Pulls 443 Sites Off Market in Real Estate Reversal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268814

onecommentman• 1 year ago

That would be one interesting storage unit auction if it was WIPP.

Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility

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