Comments on: Inspector General report condemns NRC chief over his attempts to shut Yucca Mountain https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/inspector-general-report-condemns-nrc-chief-over-his-attempts-to-shut-yucca-mountain/ Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Art Harman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/inspector-general-report-condemns-nrc-chief-over-his-attempts-to-shut-yucca-mountain/#comment-21009 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:30:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=9713#comment-21009 Bob, Thanks for pointing this out. If the disaster in Japan taught us one thing it’s that we need a safe, permanent storage facility for our radioactive waste–Yucca Mountain. And we need it now, not a decade or two from now.

There is no other solution on the horizon. Should better ideas come about in 50 or 500 years, at least the materials will have been kept safe until then. In the meantime, to leave our spent fuel rods in “temporary” storage pools similar to those in Japan and in various other haphazard storage locations for other radioactive waste leaves us vulnerable to accidents and terrorism.

Knowing what we now know post-Japanese earthquake, it really is knowing–even criminal–negligence to not open Yucca Mountain as soon as possible.

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