It is now time to start dealing with dealing with this waste disposal.
Nope, that time was decades ago. And it happened. It's done. We
have a solution that ensures complete containment of nuclear power plant waste indefinitely.
You have made it very clear that you don't like this. But not why you don't like it, or what actual problems exist with it other than your dislike.
Carefully, permanently, and with no more fuck ups. No more fires at Yucca Flats because somebody mixed nuclear waste with the wrong kind of kitty litter.
Yucca Flats has never been a part of the nuclear power industry, has never handled nuclear power waste, and has nothing to do whatsoever with nuclear power.
Do you oppose the use of cars, on the grounds that some soldiers died when they mishandled their ammunition and their tank exploded?
Military fuck ups with nuclear weapons and their waste products are not the responsibility of the nuclear power industry, anymore than the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is your personal responsibility, because you once drove across a state border.
There have been no fuckups with nuclear power plant waste. It's the only industrial waste in history that has that distinction.
But if there was a major fuck up tomorrow, what, exactly, do you think the consequences would be?
If, somehow, one of these steel and concrete casks were to split in half (I have no idea how that could be achieved, but let's assume for the sake of discussion that it did), what happens next?
Does the spent fuel go on a rampage, tear through the perimeter fence of the power plant, and stampede into the nearest town, raping women and eating babies?
Or do the power plant workers see the damage during one of their routine inspections, and use the remote handling gear that they already have on site to remove the spent fuel from the damaged cask, and place it in a new cask, without anyone getting hurt, before launching a massive and detailed investigation into exactly what happened and how to prevent it from happening again?
Or something else? How many deaths and injuries would you anticipate, and how would these arise? What environmental damage would occur, and how widespread would it be?
Most importantly, how could such a hypothetical event possibly approach anywhere close to the deaths, injuries, and environmental harm that are caused by other electricity generation technologies, not due to unlikely or rare accidents, but
as a matter of normal, routine, business as usual operations?
Soothing claims these casks are not really a problem ain't a solution.
Indeed they aren't. They're a desperate plea for you to
tell us what problem(s) you think there are!
Of you think these casks are really a problem, then you can tell us why.
Why won't you tell us why???
No more pie in the sky schemes that are not being seriously implemented and never will.
I agree. There's absolutely no reason for any of these money and time wasting schemes; We already have a complete solution for waste management.