Why is the government leasing nuclear waste storage? Who would offer a lease that lets you dump nuclear waste on your land? Surely this is the kind of thing you buy land for, not rent it.
> a 90,000 square foot facility which manages the nation’s only storage area for DOD-created nuclear waste and the only operating deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the world ...
> An additional point: it’s not the deep geologic underground place where they store it. Not sure you’re invest in building that and then just see if there’s anyone who’d want to lease it. It’s the facility where they process the nuclear waste before putting it in the super deep nuclear storage hole.
Wikipedia article about WIPP, the storage facility overseen by the group that might be axed. I'm not sure if the lease being cancelled is for the office of the team monitoring the site or if it includes the actual storage facility as well.
Smart. Could definitely find a more efficient private operator to handle this. I've heard good things about one Charles Montgomery Burns out of Springfield, he'd be just the man to do this important work.
No. I think DOGE expected a different descriptions then the systems used and, rather then adapting, are okay with moving ahead and then pulling back when their is enough of an uproar.
"Some people just want to watch the world burn." --Bale's Batman's Alfred
I suppose most of them probably don't even know they're evil.
Of course, Alfred's story was about an Indian man sabotaging the British Empire's operation, so -- now that I think about it -- the guy was probably just interested in watching the BE burn, so the analogy is not so clear cut, in either direction.
Anyway, you get my point.
We're supposed to be drug tested to get a software engineering job, but that idiot can be on adderall and ketamine and God-knows-what-else?
Remember, those wicked Germans of the 1930s and 40s were pretty big on meth, and their dear leader liked to speedball it with morphine.
This is my biggest concern. When jackass Rick Perry said years ago he wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy, I expected this would be a talking point republicans would stick to. Because it got their voters excited. The uneducated hear "Department of Energy" and they think "these people are make my gas and electricity more expensive". When their actual job is safeguarding nuclear weapons. This might just be more grandstanding, but it's not good.
Rick Perry famously had a list of three departments that he wanted to eliminate, but after naming the first two, he forgot what the third one was. It was the department of energy. So of course that's the department Trump put him in charge of. He was reportedly shocked to learn that he had been put in charge of the nation's nuclear weapons. He wanted to eliminate the department of energy despite having absolutely no idea what it does. Par for the course these days.
> Rick Perry famously had a list of three departments that he wanted to eliminate, but after naming the first two, he forgot what the third one was.
And that sank his presidential campaign right there. Just think about it. This guy just forgot about his big policy proposal - he had a policy, he didn't constantly change it, he didn't even lie about it, he just forgot about it for a second in the heat of the moment. That sank his campaign.
