re: #385 Kewalo

I just want to add that I’m not sure that Yucca is just a political problem. I know if I lived in NV I wouldn’t want it filled with nuclear waste either. In this case I sympathize with the NIMBYs.

It wouldn’t bother me even a little bit. In fact, there were proposals many years ago to do exactly that - store high-intensity nuclear waste in vast quantities right in my backyard - and I had no problem with it at all. The geology didn’t work out when tests were performed, but before that failure I had had no issues with the concept.

Coupled with the other measures mentioned, the Yucca repository would take much, much longer to “fill” as well.

Meanwhile, coal-powered electrical plants are spewing enormous quantities of toxins downwind and causing far more health problems than any nuclear plant ever will. You’re not only probably breathing that right now, but likely have been for decades already.

The same is true for ALL energy sources - they present a risk, whether in their operation or their construction, and often both. We just have irrational ways of assessing such risks.