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Nuclear is Great, As Long As I’m Not Near The Waste
Midway through the interview he’s asked: “What about the transportation?  Would you be comfortable with nuclear waste coming through Arizona on its way, you know going through Phoenix, on its way to uh Yucca Mountain?”

To which McCain shakes his head, gulps a little and responds, “No, I would not. No I would not.”

McCain says he wants 45 new nuclear plants, but it would take 10 times that number to power his unlimited gas guzzling future.  To replace coal and natural gas for electricity and heating and process coal, shale oil, and tar sands into oil.

And now we find out that most of the nuclear plant components are made offshore, no new jobs in nuclear manufacturing.  No way to transport and store the waste.  Was Palin the "expert" who advised him on this energy plan?

"The rules on Yucca Mountain are especially critical given that some in Congress, including Sen. McCain, are calling for an explosion in nuclear construction that would generate the need for a new Yucca Mountain every 17 to 24 years."