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Nuclear engineering expert advises against Yucca Mt for nuclear waste

Expert: Yucca not best place for storing nuclear waste, BY KEITH ROGERS, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, Aug. 12, 2011 There are better places than Yucca Mountain to bury nuclear waste…..That’s what one expert on Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future believes.

The expert, Per Peterson, a University of California, Berkeley, nuclear engineering professor, said the choices range from stowing it in salt formations that stretch from Texas to Louisiana and that exist in New Mexico, or putting it down deep boreholes below the water table.

In either case, drinking water supplies would be spared of contamination because the water is either too saline already or there is no evident pathway to it, he said.

And, he said, the search should start for a new course on dealing with tens of thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste stored in pools and above ground at reactor sites, once destined for a maze of tunnels in Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas…..http://www.lvrj.com/news/expert-yucca-not-best-place-for-storing-nuclear-waste-127623883.html?ref=883

August 16, 2011 - Posted by | USA, wastes

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