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Nuclear waste problem has not been solved

the problem of radioactive waste storage has not been solved. Today, some 60,000 tons of high-level waste has accumulated in the United States without a successful waste-disposal program.

U.S. Nuclear Waste Panel Slammed for Ignoring Public Fears, Environment News Service, WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration’s effort to fix the nation’s stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal efforts, say 16 social science researchers from across the country.
Writing in the latest issue of the journal “Science,” the researchers say that President Barack Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future is not paying enough attention to the social and political acceptability of possible solutions……….
More than 170 national and grassroots environmental organizations, representing every state in the country, have signed onto a “Statement of Principles for Safeguarding Nuclear Waste at Reactors.” It urges decision makers, including the Blue Ribbon Commission, to require hardened on-site storage for high-level radioactive waste stored at nuclear power plants across the United States…..
the problem of radioactive waste storage has not been solved. Today, some 60,000 tons of high-level waste has accumulated in the United States without a successful waste-disposal program. “Addressing the relevant social issues does not guarantee success,” the scientists write, “but ignoring them increases the chances of repeating past failures, like Yucca Mountain.”U.S. Nuclear Waste Panel Slammed for Ignoring Public Fears

August 21, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive