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Nuclear-Waste Storage: Solve Radioactive Enigma |

Nuclear-Waste Storage: Solve Radioactive Enigma
The Ledger.com  , May 5, 2009
.Taxpayers forked over a great deal of money to build the Yucca Mountain NuclearWaste Repository, which the federal government now has no plans to use. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says taxpayers should get some of that money back.In fact, Washington’s decisions regarding high-level nuclear waste disposal have been so slow and so political that a bill such as Graham’s is needed to force politicians to take responsibility for this safety issue for the generations.

The United States needs a place to store or dispose of its spent commercial reactor fuel. Nuclear power plants use up fuel. Those spent fuel rods are highly radioactive. Right now, they are simply piling up at the nuclear power plants that used them.

The nation also needs a method to dispose of surplus plutonium from the nuclear-weapon-production process and from dismantled bombs

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May 6, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized