Tribe faces fight to make case over nuclear storage

Article by: DAVID SHAFFER , Star Tribune
Updated: September 28, 2012 - 8:33 PM

The Prairie Island Indian Community aims to challenge Xcel's request for an extension.

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BroonieSep. 28, 1211:08 AM

It would be wonderful if the government would come to some decision about what to do with nuclear waste material, other than continuing to defer it. NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) won't to it, either. Colorado used to have a nuclear bomb trigger plant called Rocky Flats that spewed nuclear waste in flagrant violation of environmental regulations meant to protect. Monticello and Prairie Island could hardly fall into that same category, could they? Could they?

anewmanSep. 28, 1211:39 AM

Are any of the backyards of Xcel Energy executives big enough to store some of this waste? It's only fair...

samarshallSep. 28, 1212:50 PM

@anewman What an ignorant comment. The waste is already "in their backyards" as you put it. Each plant that makes the waste is storing it at the plant. All the plants in the US are happy to do this, if this was the plan from the start. The problem is that the government told the plants that they weren't allowed to keep the waste and that they had to pay the government to build a storage site and to store the waste. Now, the government is not following through on the plan and the $30 Billion + that the nuclear industry has paid to the government needs to go back to the plants to offset the cost of the plants having to store it themselves.