From the article: Yucca Mountain Still in Nuclear Waste Storage Mix?
Aside from burying it all at a single location somewhere within the continental United States, how do you think the government should deal with long-term storage of our nuclear waste? Share Your Ideas
Reprocess it
- Reprocess it and store the rest in Yucca Mountain. There may be a fault there, but very little surface water to worry about out there.
- —Guest Carol Harlow
What should we do with nuclear wast
- Stop making it. Plain and simple, it's not working out for us on many levels, from the coal that fires it to the proliferation of weapons. It holds no good prospects for humanity or anything else as we know it.
- —Guest dghidoni@kc.rr.com
Waste Disposal?
- I have no idea what is used up or spent when nuclear power is used. I would think that if their is any way at all to recycle it would be best. Of course that is much easier to say than do also. I think that disposing of the left overs in a guaranteed safe way would be OK. Maybe we could use the exact same style as the storage places that are used. When one is built and ready to go build another storage bin around that one. Then fill the first one. Then build another storage bin around the two. Then another around those. then another etc.. It would end up very large or could be regulated to size for area of disposal? It would create lots of honest work for the USA right now. It would take endless years of maintaining and jobs. It could be buried. Or we could pick out a section of the Grand Canyon and reroute the river around it and seal the area with concrete or whatever is used for completely closing in at least 1/4 of the entire bottom. Place waste inside and seal other 3/4 very well
- —Guest Tim Glover
Recycle it or dump it in the test sites
- Every Nuclear power plant should have recycling on site. The USSR/Russia also recycles however they also dump waste into the glass bubbles formed by underground nuclear testing
- —Guest Recycle it
Look to Europe
- Europe recycles its nuclear waste. For some unknown reason the US does not do this. Have you ever asked yourself why the small European countries like France and Germany don't have a nuclear waste material problem - they recycle it. The US is not there yet - why? Good question. There is not good answer.
- —Guest Andy
Take it to the moon
- Send nuclear waste to outerspace.... get it off the planet it is no good....
- —Guest Nuclear waste
send it down below
- drill a hole a few miles down in the earth, lead line the hole, dilute the waste with acid and pour in the hole. the waste would be out of the water table and the heat of the waste should seal the surroundings as the waste eats it way lower and lower down
- —ridiculouse
sell it to Iran
- I think you can sell the nuclear waste to Iran. They want it and you can earn a lot. That is win-win method! Do it!!
- —Guest Carter
Do Something!
- Whether Yucca Mtn. or Hanford there's not many alt. except talking it to death with NIMBYs or scared rabbits. Return it to the Planet @ the mid-Oceanic ridge for recycle.
- —Guest Anthony
Leave it
- Just leave it where it is. Why shouldn't they have it. They wanted the power let them have the waste too. Just don't haul it through where I live.
- —Guest Albert Newland
Pick my delivery system
- I'm with redhotpapason but I'm pickin the delvery system!
- —Guest swan56
Nuclear waste
- Send it to space and im sure we have the technology but would be very costly. but by sending it into the far reaches of space we would not have to worry about it. we would have to create a strong enough explosion so it would break the gravitational pull from earth. We could initially recycle the waste that could be recycled then send it off.
- —Guest cody
Nuclear Waste Disposition
- Send the waste to the Sun and add it to the cost of the electricity generated. It will not be as cheap and will allow natural gas to compete. Also, change the folissh law that prevents the US to recycle waste for other uses. This is an outdated law to prevent proliferation. Proliferation is proliferating.
- —Guest Russ Henry
Nuclear Waste Disposition
- Send the waste to the Sun and add it to the cost of the electricity generated. It will not be as cheap and will allow natural gas to compete. Also, change the folissh law that prevents the US to recycle waste for other uses. This is an outdated law to prevent proliferation. Proliferation is proliferating.
- —Guest Russ Henry
one way ticket
- im sure we could somehow shoot it straight at the sun
- —Guest mel
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