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Originally posted by: Boilerman
Boiler suggest that the waste should be stored within the safest site possible.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
Boiler suggest that the waste should be stored within the safest site possible.
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Originally posted by: malibber2Quote
Originally posted by: Boilerman
Mally, where is the better site to store nuclear waste?Quote
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Originally posted by: jphelan
I must have missed that story about turning Nevada into a nuclear waste dump....or maybe someone is exaggerating? I remember some project to store nuclear waste safely under a mountain in Nevada. If nuclear waste has to go somewhere, that sounds pretty reasonable to me - in a state with very low population, especially in certain regions. Heck, Area 51 fits right in with Nevada. Somehow I think stating the bill's intentions "turning Nevada into a nuclear waste dump" is a just a wee bit disingenuous.
Storing nuclear waste 100 miles away from a major population center underground on top of fault lines in state with scarce water resources, what could possibly go wrong? Do you think maybe we could get the guys that built the Fukushima reactors to design the containers to store the waste in? I heard they work really cheap now. Even today,Republicans are fighting to turn Nevada into a dumping ground for other state's nuclear waste (spent fuel rods) even though Nevada doesn't produce any nuclear waste of its own.
The states that produce it. It is called personal responsibility. If you want to build reactors in your state that is fine, but don't force some other state to store the crap you produce. Manage your own nuclear waste.
There is no evidence that Yucca Mountain is the safest place. In fact current research seems to indicate it is a very poor choice, and it is safer to keep the waste close to where it is produced as their are no risks transporting it that way. In any event it would cost in excess of 3 billion dollars to simply build a railroad to Yucca mountain, so the waste could be transported there. All that exists at the site is a 5 mile long exploratory tunnel. There are no waste disposal tunnels, receiving and handling facilities, and the waste containers and transportation casks have yet to be developed.
