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Originally Posted by red-beard
Mr. Obama has stated an opposition to nuclear. He thinks we need more work on what to do with the waste.
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The additional work to do is in trying to reshape the heads of the NIMBY folks. Yucca Mountain is technically sound. The opposition seems to be mostly emotional.
Coincidentally I am tangentially involved in getting rid of nuclear waste (our facility produces it and we need to get rid of it). It is a messy (?) issue, but I think we have some pretty good plans in place to do it. What the public doesn't understand is that we are currently shipping highly radioactive waste all over the country right now. You never hear about it because there are no issues.