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Yucca Mountain, Open For Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-I-didn't-know-I-was-moving-next-door-to-the-test-site dept.

John Galt writes: "It seems the Feds have finally decided that Nevada will host the government's nuclear waste repository." The Yucca Mountain project has been in the works for a while. Here is a cutaway diagram.

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  1. Shoot into space! by TheWhiteOtaku · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Why don't they just shoot the nuclear waste into deep space? It's probably a little more expensive than storing in Nevada in the short term, but this stuff isn't going to go away unless we unleash it into the awesome reaches of space. Why isn't the government doing this instead of burying it underground?

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