The saddest thing about those $46 billion is that this is by far enough money to develop new reactors that could reduce the waste by 99%. But instead, idiotic

The saddest thing about those $46 billion is that this is by far enough money to develop new reactors that could reduce the waste by 99%. But instead, idiotic politics has locked that money into an equally idiotic project called Yucca Mountain. In on of the most amazingly stupid sagas of stupidity in history. You literally have the money sitting there to flat out solve the problem, but instead make a solution impossible trying to force something that makes non sense in the first place. Its truly sad, like seriously, truley sad for the whole world. The amount of nuclear advanced development one could make with $46 billion is insane. Think about how NASA developed SpaceX with just a few billion. You could literally have commercial competition to develop next generation fast burners and thorium breeders. The state of nuclear competency is one of the saddest things in the world today. We have the technology that could solve the majority of the world energy problems and essentially refuse to use it, all the way from popular to even technological elites (like HN).