National Review on Kerry/Yucca Mountain

From Jonah Goldberg on NRO:

Now, I've been

to Yucca Mountain and interviewed the scientists there and read quite a few

of the studies. And, frankly, I have no idea what Kerry is talking about. Yucca

Mountain is indisputably the safest conceivable installation for nuclear waste

in America — and, quite probably, on the planet. If terrorists wanted to, say,

crash a 747 into Yucca Mountain, they'd pretty much have to get past the Nellis

Air Force base, where the Air Force practices blowing things up. It's also the

home of the Air Warfare Center and the Air Force Weapons School. It is where the

Thunderbirds practice and the site of the International combat-training exercise

known as "Red Flag." Yucca Mountain also abuts the highly secure Nevada Test

Site where we've blown up a kajillion atomic bombs.

and:

Besides, if the fear is that terrorists can get their hands on this material,

why is it preferable to keep the ingredients for dirty bombs at countless

unguarded, disparate sites around the country? Even if transport is risky, isn't

leaving this junk scattered across the country riskier? Kerry has criticized the

administration for not acting fast enough to collect and secure nuclear

materials in the former Soviet Union, why does he want to prolong the process

here at home?

check me out.

By the way, I like the idea of Yucca Mountain. I would rather have all of

this country's nuclear waste stashed in the most highly guarded and best

protected place in the entire United States, rather than spread out at hundreds

of under-protected facilities across the country. You gotta put this shit some

where. The only thing to worry about is the transportation of the nuclear

materials. Once it gets here, it doesn't matter. The spooge is going to be

buried in the middle of a mountain. If you are worried about terrorists getting

to it, you should also be worrying about terrorists going to Area-51, stealing

an alien spacecraft, and using it to attack Las Vegas. It's just not going to

happen. These areas are some of the highest security places in the world. It's

seriously a lot better to have a few thousand pounds of nuclear waste stashed

here, rather than a few hundred pounds in Bridgeport Connecticut, Dover

Delaware, Seattle, Kansas City, and wherever the hell else this goop might be.