I’m another anti-nuke power guy who’s changed to favoring the technology–stupid though it may be because its waste stays dangerous for many years–but the waste problem remains. No one wants it and until a repository is found, there’s little point in building more plants.
Via Instapundit
UPDATE Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, for one, wants the waste stored near the reactor. Build a reactor, store the waste with it. He doesn’t like the proposed federal repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The site at the link, NEI Nuclear Notes, is a good resource on the whole subject.
















No it isn’t. When did someon die because of the waste from nuclear power? Where on earth are the spent fuel disasters?
Sweden, Finland and Canada is on their way to build deep geological repositories. Deep burial works. There is no sound science against it’s feasibility. You’d have to prove major parts of physics and geology to be wrong in order to prove that DGR doesn’t work.
I’m not sure what you mean when you say “it isn’t.” It is dangerous, or it could just be sent out with the municpal garbage. And it is a problem because, so far, the spent fuel rods are piling up in cooling ponds at the plants with nowhere to go. If DGR’s the solution, that’s great. But it isn’t any more than a proposed solution until some state or locality agrees to accept it and the shipments start arriving.