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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey
Just build more nuke plants. With the latest generation of reactors IIRC a single fuel load can keep the running for 50+ years. Waste admittedly would still be a problem but I say do what we should've done and shoved it deep, way deep, like go to the tallest mountain and drill to the very bottom of it deep in the Rockies. Do that and the stuff would never get out.
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We already have such a site building in Nevada. If storing nuclear waste at a place as remote, as desolate, as geologically stable as Yucca Mountain, threatens the health and safety of millions of Americans, then there is no safe place to store it.
The only reason it's not completed now is opposition from the NIMBYs in Nevada. Being such staunch environmentalists, I'm sure they'd cheer wildly if Hoover Dam was dismantled to allow the Colorado River to run free again and Vegas went dark.
