Originally posted by Savaric
I think the Yucca mountain project in Nevada has already been approved. I'm also on board with nuclear energy. I saw a thing on modern marvels how they ship that waste. It was all about "canning" (I love modern marvels). They mix that crap with glass and inject it into big steel canisters, it solidifies and is just this virtually un-breakable huge tube of glass fill. It's quite safe.
Yucca Mountain has NOT been approved and if you read the DOE's 8,600-page permit application, you'll see that it's not even viable. Part of the plan calls for the installation of 11,000 titanium drip shields that weigh over 5 tons each. Yeah. So almost $10 billion has been spent in research on this project when people knew in the beginning that this was not a proper location for the repository.

I'm all for the advancement of nuclear power - I think this is a real solution for the future. Unfortunately areas that have been TRULY deemed as real possibilities for the storage of waste tend to be in "pretty" areas that certain groups are trying to protect.