> Although the design questions are fascinating, the bigger issue that we need somewhere to store all of the nuclear waste. It's actually sitting in a variety o

> Although the design questions are fascinating, the bigger issue that we need somewhere to store all of the nuclear waste. It's actually sitting in a variety of temporary facilities right now that aren't as safe as WIPP or Yucca mountain simply because it's very hard to get politicians to agree whose backyard gets to be the forever home for our spent fuel rods. An other direction would be to store it more safely but still accessible and work on techniques to reprocess the waste, especially that with long half-live. Of course that would mean we'd have to admit that nuclear energy is far more expensive than regenerative energy sources in the long run and nobody would want that... [Edit: Please excuse the polemics. The topic is the source for a lot of heated debates in my social surroundings.]