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Safety Review Finds Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Was Technically Sound

Posted by Soulskill on from the wasted-effort dept.

siddesu writes: The U.S. Department of Energy's 2008 proposal to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was technically sound, a report by the NRC says. However, the closed-down project is unlikely to revive, as its staff has moved on, and there are few funds available to restart it. "With the release of the final two volumes of a five-part technical analysis, the commission closed another chapter on the controversial repository nearly five years after President Barack Obama abandoned the project, and more than a quarter century after the site was selected. While the staff recommended against approving construction, the solid technical review could embolden Republicans who now control both houses of Congress and would like to see Yucca Mountain revived."

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  1. Won't be enough by Virtucon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if the Nuclear Waste Repository was located on the Moon it would be too close for some people. This was an opportunity lost.

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    Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
    1. Re:Won't be enough by knightghost · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's just hoping for magic. The bane of our so-called modern society.

      Yucca has always been an excellent place for mid-term (1k-10k year) radioactive storage - it's politics and corresponding misinfotainment that has destroyed our chances of low carbon safe energy.

  2. If only it were POLITICALLY and SOCIALLY sound by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nuclear waste disposal isn't an engineering problem, it's a social and political problem.

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
  3. Re:Majority leaders home district by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At current rates, with no reprocessing or advances in technology.

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    W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  4. Re:the problem with how nuclear works in the USA by QuantumPion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It also takes pressure off nuclear power companies to invest in reclamation and reprocessing technologies and frees them to simply consume fresh nuclear fissile materials without concern for their total lifespan.

    While most of your post I would disagree with, this part is especially wrong. The reason why power companies do not invest in reprocessing and consume fresh fissile material is because by federal law bans it. Remember Jimmy Carter's Non-proliferation deal? Yeah.