Nuclear waste will harm future generations for a million years without underground storage (blogpost by Alice Friedemann)
Preface. This is a book review of “Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste” and the best book I’ve read on the topic, as well as additional research on the topic.
Now that world wide production of conventional and unconventional oil probably peaked in 2018 (coal in 2013, and perhaps natural gas in 2019), our top priority should be to bury nuclear wastes as soon as possible. Once severe shortages arrive, remaining oil will go to agriculture and other essential needs. This short window of time now may be our only chance to bury nuclear wastes — our descendants certainly won’t have the energy, diesel equipment, or technology.
Yucca mountain is the best possible place to put nuclear waste in the U.S. The only place to put it actually, a $15 billion facility that models put through thousands of permutations of multiple calamities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, flooding and more. Yucca was found to be a safe place to put nuclear waste."
