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.
The NOTUS article that (I think) first reported on this-> <a href="https://archive.ph/lcoYN" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/lcoYN</a>
Strategy might be:<p>1) Break everything<p>2) Fix things that people complain enough about.<p>Everything else wasn't sufficiently important, for some definition of sufficient.
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.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant</a>
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.
"Some people just want to watch the world burn." --Bale's Batman's Alfred<p>I suppose most of them probably don't even know they're evil.<p>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.<p>Anyway, you get my point.<p>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?<p>Remember, those wicked Germans of the 1930s and 40s were pretty big on meth, and their dear leader liked to speedball it with morphine.<p>Red flags should be flying, y'all!
Related update earlier:<p><i>Trump Agency Pulls 443 Sites Off Market in Real Estate Reversal</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268814">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268814</a>
aaaand we're here<p>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.