"Dissecting the BRC report, Part II: Where interim storage falls short"

"Dissecting the BRC report, Part II: Where interim storage falls short"

http://neutroneconomy.blogspot.com/2011/09/dissecting-brc-report-part-ii-where.html

While the BRC provided useful guidelines for situating an inevitably necessary geologic repository, their technical recommendations for waste management beyond this, resting chiefly on centralized interim storage - fall short for a number of reasons. While interim storage may be useful at "buying time" for waste management policy, the BRC report's conclusions ultimately rely on a deus ex machina approach, waiting for as-yet nonexistent transformative technology to come and solve their problems for them.