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The waste issue has already been solved. You turn it into glass then store it somewhere geologically stable, such as Yucca Mountain. See http://www.phyast.pitt.
by coin 11y ago
The waste issue has already been solved. You turn it into glass then store it somewhere geologically stable, such as Yucca Mountain. See http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html
- jaskerr 11y agoUmmm, no. Irrational tho' it may seem, local, regional and national resistance has made Yucca Mountain untenable. So we're back to dry cask and concrete, which is not a long term solution.
- pdonis 11y ago> The waste issue has already been solved. Yes, but the solution isn't to store it. The solution is to reprocess it. That's what all the other major nuclear-using countries do. The only reason the US doesn't is politics.
- jeffwilcox 11y agoThe glassification plant at Hanford is just starting to come online, but Yucca doesn't want it. We have a political problem now, not a technical one... and yeah that's going to be a tough one. I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export?
- ceejayoz 11y ago> I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export? I very much doubt that'll happen. Political stability for a waste repository is going to be just as much a concern as geological stability.
- Terr_ 11y agoWhat do you think I was referring to by "playing an institutional game of radioactive-hot-potato"? The places you mention are actually examples of failure.