YABR (Yet Another Bush Rant)

Not like rants about Bush don't happen daily here at Loaded Mouth, but this morning just feels especially evil. For example, remember that nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain that Bush has forced upon us? How long will it take to leak nuclear waste? Answers please!

The U.S. nuclear waste dump proposed for Nevada is poorly designed and could leak highly radioactive waste, said a scientist who recently resigned from a federal panel of experts on Yucca Mountain. Paul Craig, a physicist and engineering professor at the University of California-Davis, said Wednesday that he quit the panel last month so he could speak more freely about the waste dump's dangers.

..."If we get high-temperature liquids, the metal would corrode and that would eventually lead to leakage of nuclear waste," Craig said. "Therefore, it is a bad design. And that is very, very bad news for the Department of Energy because they are committed to that design," he said.

...The 11-member technical review board outlined its concerns about the potential for corrosion in a report to the Energy Department in November about the metal for the canisters, called Alloy-22 — "an upscale version of stainless steel," Craig said.

Yup, that's right. They're going to store nuclear waste in stainless steel canisters and tell us it's perfectly safe. Where's a brick wall when you need one? I feel the need to bash my head into it after reading these stories.