About 80% of French electrical power is generated by about 100 nuclear reactors. They seem to have no nuclear waste problem such is plaguing the US nuclear power industry. They, so I understand, rework the spent fuel in situ. I wonder why we don't do this.
In 2002 congress passed the deep geologic repository act and proceeded to spend 10 billion bucks to develop the Yucca Mountain site as a place to dump our spent nuclear waste. This site was completed and then abandoned. It is for sale if you want to buy a big hole in the ground.
Thanks to senator Harry Ried ( Dem., Nevada ) the site will no longer be considered and the 10 billion ( Chump change by Washington standards) is wasted. We continue, therefor, to have the same old serious problem of nuclear waste disposal.
Thanks a bunch, Harry
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Sorry dad, you left the barn door wide open!!! The 10B Yucca mountain hole is not nearly as yuccy as the 10T hell-th hole he just helped dig this country into.
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