Originally Posted by atomchaser
High Level Nuclear Waste is strictly a political problem. We spent billions to build a facility at Yucca mountain to safely store it. Harry Reid and Obama killed it. It would all fit on one football field 10 yards deep.

Spot on reply! Yucca Mountain was ready to go but thanks to Reid and Obama spent fuel rods (still with lots of fuel if reprocessed) are stored at every nuclear power plant. Jimmy Carter killed the fuel reprocessing in the US.

Last edited by CraigD; 09/16/22.