I think you're being snide and not constructive. You've characterized their work as "nonsense" and having "no basis in reality", but even when asked for details

I think you're being snide and not constructive. You've characterized their work as "nonsense" and having "no basis in reality", but even when asked for details, you haven't really pointed at specific issues. Between someone on the internet saying it's too much work to debunk their nonsense, and a PNAS article, I think absent very specific claims by the forum poster, any reasonable person has to give greater trust to the published article. Of the limited amount you've actually said, it doesn't appear that you've tried to read their claims. > the size of the can has nothing to do with the amount of fuel or its disposition. Part of the concern of increased neutron leakage is that _non-fuel_ material, including structural materials surrounding fuel assemblies, also must be considered. In the paper, see section 3. I _do_ think there's an inevitable set of questions to address when trying to analyze reactor designs when they aren't yet operational -- i.e. actual measurements of the waste streams are not available. I don't know what you think the credentials of authors contributing to this field _should_ be, but from what's quickly available, all of these people seem to have worked in related areas: - Krall has a geochemistry background, has researched "geologic repository development" and worked at "the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company" - MacFarlane was chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (!), and has done a lot of work related to nuclear policy and nuclear waste - Ewing's list of prior titles include "Adjunct Professor of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering", "Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences", "William Kerr Collegiate Professor of Nuclear Eng. & Radiological Sciences" I.e. together they have academic, government/regulatory and industrial experience, which sounds like a pretty good combination to me. https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/lindsay-krall https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/lindsay-krall https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/allison-macfarlane/ https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/allison-macfarlane/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/rodney_c_ewing https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/rodney_c_ewing