Better Nuclear Waste Storage Plans than Yucca Mountain

NuclearRampage writes "Technology Review has an in-depth article about A New Vision for Nuclear Waste based on the premise that 'storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea.' The article looks at the current DOE plans for Yucca, its shortcomings and what temporary solutions we have to use while a better permanent plan is formulated."

Comments

Re:No, ignoring it won't make it go away

[Saven Marek]

Maybe we don't need to dispose of it in outer space as we didn't come it from there in the first place.

Think about it logically. We have a few hundred tons of nuclear waste. This was all radioactive before we got it and will be after we got it. So what has it been doing all this time? Being radioactive. If its puts back into the ground like it was found (from everywhere?) then I dont see a problem. Low level radioactivity is always been there and always will be. If this waste were ground into incredibly fine particulates and released into the atmosphere slowly from a hundred places on the globe it would not be noticed. within years it would all be in the ground again and there are no problems. Nuclear waste problem solved by putting it back where it came from, how it came from.

Re:100+ years is all it takes

[MyLongNickName]

Any your karma sucks out the butt... why is that?