Rock Chuck,
A significant portion of the high level waste (reactor fuel rods) at the INL has been moved to dry above ground storage versus the wet (pool) storage from the past. As such, it poses a much smaller risk to the aquifer. Liquid high level wast has, except for a few tanks, has been converted into a dry powder and stored in tanks; again a safer approach.
A poster mentioned the WIPP facility in NM, it was never designed or planned to contain high level (reactor fuel rods) waste.
They have tons of the stuff stored at the INL atomic test site in Idaho. It's not a safe place. It's earthquake prone and over the southern Idaho aquifer. They government has agreed several times to get it moved but it's still here. They keep piling on lie after lie. It was supposed to go to Yucca Mtn but like has been said, that's a Harry Reid boondoggle.
BTW, a lot of our atomic waste is from reactors in places like France and other European countries. The feds think its safer here where we can control it rather than there where possibly terrorists can get it. We're the world's nuke waste storage pit.
