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Nuclear Waste: What to Do?
All waste today in temporary storage
Types of storage:
Dry cask storage
Vitrification
Permanent Storage Ahead?
- Yucca Mountain is a huge political problem
- A solution?: let private industry compete to develop stable, mined geologic repositories for spent fuel or vitrified fission products
Popular culture images of nuclear energy negative in recent years, such as on The Simpsons TV show.