Rattle wrote:

And now for the knee-jerk lefty response. Yes it's time to decommision old ones, no it's not time to build new ones. When we figure out what to do with the radioactive waste, then maybe it'll be time to start building new ones.

Screw that perspective. I'm probably more of a liberal than I am a conservative, and on both grounds I can find a way to refute it. You are very right in classifying that as 'knee-jerk".

There was just such a rambling piece in the Guardian this week.

If projects like Yucca Mountain were not mismanaged, we would have a solution already. On-site storage is even workable.

I have to say Yucca mountain is a pretty dumb idea; all storage *must* be recoverable; it is ludicrous to suppose that we'llhave any idea what will happen to the stuff on a geological time scale. Further, how on earth are you going to get the stuff there? As it stands, you have to cross something like 40 states to get there from all of the nuke sites. On-site isn't perfect but Yucca mountain certainly isn't the answer either. Put it in relatively low-density dry casks until we can come up with a better solution.

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