Not Into Fracking? How About Some Nuclear Waste?

The U.S. shale oil-and-gas boom has something for everybody. Jobs! Community outrage! Cheap fuel! Financial intrigue! Geopolitical leverage! Dirty water!
Really, the only thing nobody's tried to work in is nuclear waste. Until now.
The very characteristics that make shale oil and gas difficult to extract -- they're sealed in hard-to-reach rock -- are the qualities that might protect radioactive waste from the ravages of time and the elements.
Irradiating hydrocarbon reservoirs wouldn’t be a popular idea. Fortunately, there’s plenty of hydrocarbon-poor shale around that drillers have no interest in. Chris Neuzil, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist, presents a study on such a site, near the Bruce Nuclear Complex in Ontario, at an American Chemical Society conference today in Dallas.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-17/not-into-fracking-try-nuclear-waste.html