Hacker News Reader

> The waste issue has already been solved.

Yes, but the solution isn't to store it. The solution is to reprocess it. That's what all the other major nuclear-using countries do. The only reason the US doesn't is politics.

The glassification plant at Hanford is just starting to come online, but Yucca doesn't want it.

We have a political problem now, not a technical one... and yeah that's going to be a tough one. I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export?

> I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export?

I very much doubt that'll happen. Political stability for a waste repository is going to be just as much a concern as geological stability.

Ummm, no. Irrational tho' it may seem, local, regional and national resistance has made Yucca Mountain untenable. So we're back to dry cask and concrete, which is not a long term solution.

What do you think I was referring to by "playing an institutional game of radioactive-hot-potato"? The places you mention are actually examples of failure.