What's Next After Yucca Mountain
Editorial, New York Times
The country has repeatedly tried and failed to find a burial spot for spent nuclear fuel rods that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. The rods are currently stored in cooling pools or dry casks at nuclear power plants across the country. But that is becoming politically untenable. Nine states have already banned the construction of new reactors until the waste problem is solved or substantial progress made. . .
The country has repeatedly tried and failed to find a burial spot for spent nuclear fuel rods that will remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. The rods are currently stored in cooling pools or dry casks at nuclear power plants across the country. But that is becoming politically untenable. Nine states have already banned the construction of new reactors until the waste problem is solved or substantial progress made. . .
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