re: #100 marjoriemoon

I like it.

I’m a supporter of nuclear too. Not something you normally hear from a Leftie heh. The problem, though, is the waste. What to do with the waste.

Nevada. But actually, on site storage is tolerable. There’s even a Scientific American article pointing out that we can manage it that way. Not optimal, but since Nevada is politically impossible, we’re stuck with on-site. The beauty of nuclear waste is that there is so little of it, and most of what there is goes away all on its own. (The really hot isotopes have a short half life. Store them for ten half lives and 99.9 percent of your problem is gone.) Quite unlike, say, arsenic or lead in mine tailings.