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U.S. needs to stop dawdling, find permanent site for waste
azstarnet.com — The high cost of fossil fuels and their contribution to global warming has led to renewed interest in nuclear power. In the United States a desire for energy independence is contributing to governmental incentives for new nuclear plants. One aspect of nuclear power that remains unresolved is the disposal of the highly radioactive waste contained...
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- a10webb, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1There never will be a safe, permanent site for a nuclear waste repository. I did a research paper for my environmental science class about Yucca Mountain and the research about the proposed methods of storage. I would have to look up the data but it was somewhere around 10 years before radioactive colloids permeated into the water table. There will never be a foolproof way of containing spent nuclear fuel.
Nuclear power is not the way to go. It's time to find something renewable, and no not ethanol from corn for god's sake. Thank the farming lobby for that one. - CDGoin, on 02/27/2008, -0/+0Who wrote your research for Yucca? A knee Jerk enviromentalist I am sure..
1) The capsules they hold the waste in would have to crack open and they are designed for falling off a cliff without cracking
2) A earthquake so large as to fall most the buildings in Las Vegas would have to occur to collapse the facility on itself
3) The water table is miles deep
The only way anythign seeps in the water table in 10 years is IF #1 & #2 somehow occur.. and is followed by massive amounts of rain that seep into the mountain and through the waste. Which would be on the level of a natural disaster like none ever seen.
Apparently keep the waste in open pools outside of nuclear facilities next to major cities is more envirometnally safe and friendly than burying it in a granite mountain in the middle of nowhere.
I hate to tell you all, there is no free lunch. Wind and Solar will not solve our problems and we need to get off of coal and oil.. Nuclear is the only viable solution at this time.. and the waste is something that has to be dealt with. Get over it and stop believeing everything Greenpeace feeds you.
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