Bush energy policy

Yucca Mountain, even if licensed to receive spent fuel in 2010, only has the capacity to absorb the output of commercial U.S. spent fuel production and existing storage through about 2015. Consequently, President Bush in his National Energy Policy issued in May 2001 (ref 6.1) recommended ... 

In 2003, U.S. president George Bush launched the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI), which was later implemented by legislation through the 2005 Energy Policy Act and the 2006 Advanced Energy Initiative. President Bush stated that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen and pollution free. ... 

The Clinton Administration (1993-2000) that followed was far more inclined to embrace environmental activism than Reagan or Bush, and far more likely to propose command and control solutions to energy and environmental problems. However, the Clinton Administration also realized the need to allow markets to work, to do otheiwise would result in some of the disastrous consequences of intervention policies used in the 1970s. 

Thus at the outset of the U.S. atomic energy program scientists were summarily denied a voice in deciding the political and military uses of the weapons they were proposing to build. Bush accepted the usurpation happily. To him it was simply a matter of who would run the show. It left him on top and inside and he put it to use immediately to shoulder the physics community into line. Within hours, as he wrote Frank Jewett in November, he had emphasized to Arthur Compton and his people the fact that they are asked to report upon the techniques, and that consideration of general policy has not been turned over to them as a subject. ... 

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