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To: craig crawford who wrote (245)	6/14/2001 7:15:12 PM
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Wednesday June 13, 4:48 pm Eastern Time Cheney pushes Bush energy plan; more nuclear power biz.yahoo.com On energy supply, Cheney mentioned more than once during his talk the need to bolster nuclear generation, saying the nuclear option would provide emissions-free electricity without the greenhouse gases blamed for warming the globe. Cheney said nuclear power generates around 20 percent of the country's power needs currently. ``We'd like to increase that,'' Cheney said. The problem, he said, rested on the issue of the government taking spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors and storing it as mandated under the law. The only storage site under consideration is the Yucca Mountain venue in the Nevada desert. Democrats in the Senate oppose the storage plan, arguing spent fuel should remain on-site at the more than 100 reactors around the country. Democrats, notably the two Nevada senators, agree with environmentalists that the Yucca storage plan is too risky, and think transporting 40,000 metric tons of waste across the country to a central location is rife with unnecessary danger. Cheney said ``the issue must be addressed.'' The vice president was interrupted during his appearance by an anti-global warming protester, who demanded to know why the United States under the Bush administration had opted out of the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty to cut greenhouse gases. Cheney took the heckler's question. He said people who complained the loudest about global warming were the first ones to scream about mentions of using nuclear power to help out. "If you're really concerned about global warming and carbon dioxide emissions, then we need to come over here and aggressively pursue the use of nuclear power, which we can do safely and sanely, but for 20-some years now has been a big no-no politically. ``Some of the same people who yell loudest about global warming and carbon dioxide emissions are also the first ones to scream when somebody says, 'Gee, we ought to use nuclear power,''' Cheney said.