What Floats McCain's Boat

Chuck Muth’s YuccaFacts has good fun today. He first quotes John McCain on Yucca Mountain in a speech in Denver yesterday:

“I would seek to establish an international repository for spent nuclear fuel that could collect and safely store materials overseas that might otherwise be reprocessed to acquire bomb-grade materials. It is even possible that such an international center could make it unnecessary to open the proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.”

Muth then reminds us that a primary argument of Yucca Repository opponents has been Transportation and quips, Does the term “mobile Chernobyl” ring any bells?” Now, enter McCain with this grand Plan for overseas storage. Muth poses the obvious question: “How is it going to get there?” and wonders how consistent opposers will be in re: to their objections when the destination is no longer Yucca – nor indeed, anywhere in the good old U.S. of A.

My questions are: Which lucky nation does McCain have in mind for the storage site? Who will enthusiastically raise their hand in favor of becoming the world’s nuclear septic tank? And how does Mr. GreenJeans – the guy who now sells organic t-shirts and mugs on his website and “uncategorically opposes” building an oil refinery and pipeline in rural Alaska so a few caribou can freely enjoy an unfettered sunset – justify suggesting floating boatloads of radioactive waste in and out of the world’s major ports and population centers?