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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by nickik on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:46AM (#21246013)
No it wasn't. The US has a perfect place for nuclear waste that we discovered a while ago but politics made it be Yucca Mountain and that is not a good place. And then even worse becuase of politics the technical targets have been moved to absurd demands that make it utterly impossible to move forward.

The US has the right location and the money already stored, there is still the Yuca Mountain inpass as it currently required to be the selected site.

I think finding such a site in the first place is nonsense as in 50-100 years we should be consume that fuel anyway.

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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by blaser-waffle on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:04PM (#21251604)
So then where is this perfect place?
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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by nickik on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @05:31AM (#21256862)
I can't find the name at the moment but its a structure that has been unchanging for 1000s of years and has been evaluated as perfect for nuclear waste since the very early days of nuclear in the US.

I think it was evaluated at about 1/5 the cost of bringing Yucca Maintain to the same standard.

'Combating climate change: The role of nuclear power' from University of University of Michigan had a number of lectures where some of this is mentioned if I remember correctly.

I'm working so I don't have time at the moment.

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