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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:55 -0800, Bill McKee wrote:


The Yucca Mountain installation could not, apparently, guarantee proper
storage, not to mention the transportation issues.

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Was pure politics. Hell, they truck nuclear weapons, what is so bad
about trucking nuclear waste? And most of the waste is low level stuff.

One of the problems with Yucca Mountain, it's 30 year old technology.
The proposed Generation IV reactors produce much less waste, and with
reprocessing may make the whole concept of a nuclear waste repository,
such as Yucca Mountain, unnecessary. It's my understanding that Yucca
Mountain hasn't been permanently discared, but they are having a blue-
ribbon panel look at it with modern day eyes. There may very well be,
cheaper, safer, ways to accomplish it's mission.

The major storage problem is not the high level waste, it is the tons of low
level stuff. That may be radioactive for only a couple hundred years.