Yucca Mountain
I find it surprising that now after so much money has been spent on the Yucca Mountain project that the government wants to simply abandon it and abandon it with no alternatives. I don't find this decision very fair at all to nuclear power plants who have been waiting for years to finally have somewhere to put their waste. I feel it was very ignorant of the original government staff who selected the spot without doing any tests on it before selecting Yucca Mountain. You would think that for something as a big a deal as nuclear waste they would have at least sent a few scientists to observe the mountain. That part of the article really shocked me. I have to agree with the article in that if the Yucca Mountain plan is abandoned and no alternative found then we should not build anymore nuclear reactors and perhaps even stop using the ones we have. At this point it seems as though we may never find a place to store nuclear waste.
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I agree. This is a tough problem. It might be interesting to research how waste is currently stored. How much of it is there and how does the health threat posed by the current storage methods compare with the potential problems at Yucca Mt.?
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