Topic: Nuclear Waste And Yucca Mountain
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Why should they store nuclear waste at yucca mountain?
Well it should be desirable in the long run to store it in one specialised place rather than on individual power plant sites as at present in the US Read More »
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How will nuclear wastes be transported to Yucca Mountain?
Spent fuel would be put into very heavy and secure containers (flasks) which could be transported by railroad as far as possible. I'm not sure if it is intended to build a railroad up to the repository, but that would be best. Otherwise the... Read More »
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What are the pros of storing nuclear waste at Yucca mountain
The pros to storing the waste there is that it is far away from human population and is in the desert. Read More »
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The proposed design. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and ... More »
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None at all, no license has been granted and I don't think the NRC have even started considering it. In fact I believe it is no longer supported by the Federal Govt. Read More »
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Actually, it isn't. It was never finished, even though zillions of tax dollars was spent on it. It turns out that careful studies have cast serious doubt on the suitability of the site for the long term storage of nuclear waste. The Obama a... Read More »
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The US Government (Atomic Energy Commission which then became the DOE) scientists were assigned the task of identifying ways for safe disposal of radioactive waste. They came up with many different ideas and many different locations. There ... Read More »
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I'm OK way with it. It hardly ever rains so it would keep the waste from contaminating ground water. Read More »
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The original plan was to be able to store 77,000 tons of waste, but there are plans to increase this number to 132,000 tons. Read More »
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The most difficult issue is local opposition. It has to be much better than haveing all this radioactive waste sitting in thin concrete barrels all over. Read More »
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