>> In the coming decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will need to transport that material to future storage facilities. >No doubt at great cost, none

>> In the coming decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will need to transport that material to future storage facilities. >No doubt at great cost, none of which is being factored into current nuclear projects or energy pricing. This is not correct: >...Moreover, every commercial nuclear power plant was required to help finance the construction of the federal waste repository. The plants raised funds for this by charging their customers a fee of one one-tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour. Every quarter, money has been transferred from the plant operators into the federal government’s Nuclear Waste Fund (Kacich, 2021). Including interest, electricity consumers have contributed more than $56 billion into that fund, which now generates over $1.5 billion in interest every year (NEI, 2021a; DOE-OIG, 2021). https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/student-life/advocates-forum/our-silent-zombie-commercial-nuclear-waste-storage-united-states#:~:text=Every%20quarter%2C%20money%20has%20been,DOE%2DOIG%2C%202021 https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/student-life/advocates-foru...). In reality, burying fuel without reprocessing it would be incredibly wasteful. Really it seems like it would make more sense to store it until the fuel can be reprocessed and some of the more dangerous remaining material burned in a 4th gen reactor. But there is so much fear-mongering about nuclear power I doubt there will ever be a rational discussion of it by politicians in this country.