U.S. to Give Away $1 Billion Tax Dollars to Make Nuclear Waste

Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "The Energy Department is considering permits for five sites to build nuclear plants, including one in Clinton, where Chicago- based Exelon already operates a station. Exelon expects to obtain approval for the site by the end of summer. Richmond, Virginia- based Dominion Resources Inc. has a permit pending for its Lake Anna, Virginia, site, and New Orleans-based Entergy has applied to build on its Grand Gulf site in Jackson, Mississippi.
Senators John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, said they plan to offer an amendment to the energy bill that would provide $1 billion to $5 billion more in nuclear-power incentives.
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``Each one of these power plants has the ability to wipe out the state in which it's operating,'' said Jim Riccio, a Greenpeace nuclear-policy analyst. ``Its wastes will last 240,000 years, and we've yet to come up with any clear solution to that problem. And suicidal terrorists are targeting nuke power plants and are using them as pre-positioned weapons of mass destruction.'' "