Nevada governor to boycott Trump meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY REID WILSON - 02/23/19 10:45 AM EST

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) will not attend meetings at the White House this week in protest of the Trump administration's decision to secretly ship a thousand pounds of plutonium to a nuclear waste facility outside of Las Vegas.

Sisolak, who won office in November, said his administration has asked the Trump administration and the Department of Energy repeatedly for clarification about the shipment, but so far they have received no response.

"The president, without our knowledge, decided to have half a ton of plutonium shipped to the state of Nevada. We don't know when it was shipped, how it was shipped, when it got there," Sisolak told The Hill in a brief interview Saturday morning.

"My main focus is to protect the citizens of my state, and I feel it would be disingenuous to go and have a sit-down dinner with the president and the administration when we've written letters, tried to get responses to why this was done, and thus far heard crickets," he said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/431261-nevada-governor-to-boycott-trump-meeting

[crazytown]

1. Plutonium?

That’s not low/mid level waste. N Korea would love to get their hands on that. Incredible.

[hlthe2b]

2. Geez... I would hope they are in court. This is absolute dictator behavior.

[notdarkyet]

3. Send it to the WH, or maralago. Don't tell anyone, do it in the dark.

[pandr32]

4. They don't even answer letters?

It appears that this administration doesn't follow any conventions of professionalism whatsoever.

This apparent plutonium shipment is a very big deal and should be a major news story. WTF???

[bluestarone]

5. As if the HOUSE doesn't have enough to do

They need to issue some more subpoenas!!! Get to the bottom of this BULLSHIT!!!!

[Traildogbob]

7. Fuck trump

Correct me if I am wrong, but I remember very recently this admin just weakened the regs on the toxic levels of Nuke waste. Throw in some good clean Russian asbestos and clean coal ash. We gettin great yet? MAGA, God sent him. 💥🌍🌑🔥🐘🇷🇺💰✋✋

[Power 2 the People]

6. Send it right to Trump Tower!

[DRoseDARs]

8. I'm bothered there isn't more outrage over this. It didn't just materialize here...

... it had to be physically transported through God knows how many states to get here, passing through populated areas with no notice to relevant authorities.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Send it to Mar A Lago

[Cold War Spook]

10. Is he sure it is in Nevada?

Maybe Trump sold it to his best friend in North Korea.

[Nitram]

11. Ok, help me out here. What is "unprofessional" about secretly shipping a huge quantity of plutonium

nuclear waste to a FEDERAL NATIONAL SECURITY FACILITY? Isn't that where such waste is supposed to be disposed of and protected? I get it that Nevada is unhappy about the site, but where do you suggest they waste should have been disposed of? Who thinks it is a good idea to risk news of the transfer getting out to every domestic terrorist in the country? Am I missing something here?

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. Trump is messy. The Governor of Nevada at least deserved the courtesy of being briefed on the

shipment going through his state. That doesn't mean Trump had to announce it to the world, it just means that the Governor should have been informed. Now he probably couldn't have stopped the shipment, and I doubt that the Gov would have announced it to the world. But some of Trump's actions or non-actions, are things which are done as a simple courtesy. Trump thinks he's a king and can just treat people like they are shit and he can just ignore them. The Governor of Nevada was elected just like Trump and he has a constituency as well. Trump doesn't own the State of Nevada and all it's highways, bridges and interstates. What if there had been an accident during the shipment and it was the state where you live. Wouldn't you want your Governor to know in advance so he can make sure that the movers have all the advance information that they needed to minimize the probability of something going array.

For the record, Las Vegas got snow for the first time that I can recall a few days ago. My son has lived there for about 10 years and it was the first time he could recall getting snow in the southern part of the state. I heard about it on the early morning news here in Georgia, and text him before he was even awake to let him know snow was forecast for that morning in Las Vegas. He hadn't heard about it when he went to bed the night before. I doubt if a truck driver hauling Plutonium cross country said to himself, let me check the weather forecast for Las Vegas now, to see if there is any snow forecast for when I should be arriving from my cross country journey with my load of Plutonium.

It's called common courtesy and the Trump's seem to be the only ones who were never taught it.

[Nitram]

15. The shipment went through all the states between the waste storage location sites and Nevada.

The more governors and their staff that know about the transfer, the more likely the transfer will become vulnerable to attack by right wing crazies or terrorists.

[Tikki]

13. It needs to stay where it was wasted and let those locals deal with it...

I mean, until we get past that..NUKE feeds my family..mentality, it may happen wherever the FEDS might decide.
And why the secret!!

Tikki

[Nitram]

14. I don't think keeping nuclear waste in hundred of random ponds all over the country is a very good

idea from either an environmental or a national security point of view.

[Tikki]

16. Or in the ground in old concrete tanks precariously close to a major U.S. river..

but there the NUKE waste lies and for decades.

Nothing is truly going to be done until the NUKE communities put a STOP to
NUKE production and own up to their own waste.

Sending waste any distance is dangerous and there is no reason NOW to believe
any kind of accident wouldn’t be covered up by this administration.

Tikki

[Nitram]

17. The fact that there were lies about Nukes and waste isn the past is not a reason not to use

the best practices we know to store and manage nuclear waste now. You want to increase the chances of more nuclear contamination of the environment because you're mad at the government and the nuclear industry? That's not rational.

[Tikki]

18. NUKE industry has had over 60 years to learn to deal with it's waste.

Billions of TAX PAYER’S dollars have gone to research, site management and contractors and the
best they can do, after nearly a Century, is hire contractor after contractor to move this sh*t around in the ground.

I don’t want it anywhere near me or my family any more.

The community that owns it should burden it.

The Tikkis

P.s. what is to like about the nuclear industry?

[Nitram]

19. There's nothing I like about the nuclear industry except that they are FINALLY

taking steps to dispose of nuclear waste in a safe and environmentally prudent manner. Let's applaud that rather than insist that waste stay in communities where it will continue to pose a danger to humans and the environment.