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wlrun3@aol.com:

--- Quote from: Marssim on Jul 02, 2008, 08:28 ---define "reasonably",....

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   ...until there is a central repository...

RDTroja:

--- Quote from: wlrun3 on Jul 02, 2008, 11:00 ---   ...until there is a central repository...

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Not quite that long. Only about 1000 years or so.

wlrun3@aol.com:

   ...how many of the 65 sites have dry cask storage, how many have applied and how many have stated an intention to apply...

PWHoppe:

--- Quote from: RDTroja on Jul 03, 2008, 07:48 ---Not quite that long. Only about 1000 years or so.

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Or until Harry Reid is out of office (not a poly-sci thing just the reality of the Yucca situation)

matthew.b:
I don't know how "good" I'd call the article.

The most egregious is: "Scientists from across the globe are searching for something better. Europe, Russia and Japan recycle spent fuel — meaning there is less waste to store. That practice was largely abandoned in the United States, because the process can produce weaponized plutonium, potentially sparking an international outcry."

No, it doesn't produce weaponized plutonium.  It makes reactor grade which is no where near as good for making a bomb.

"The waste will be fatal to humans and other animals for tens of thousands of years — yet the storage tombs are expected to last only a hundred years."

I think that makes it sound way worse than reality.  At 1000 years it isn't all that hot anymore.

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