Yucca and WIPP are apples and oranges from the perspective of geological makeup and management. YUCCA has the technological edge over WIPP.
Yes a salt hauling truck caught fire, something not required at YUCCA which is in volcanic rock not a salt dome.
Conventional wisdom seems to favor something between the two as a better solution but to start over would be that much more expensive.
Me I would like to see more efforts into processing and vitrification, then long term burial (or maybe burial on the sun
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