So, Einstein, where do we put all that nuclear waste?
Seems as North America presses on with plans to build more nuclear power plants, the folks in charging of figuring out what to do with all that nuclear waste are still scratching their heads. Not a good sign.
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman told attendees at a U.S. nuclear conference last week that plans to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain near Las Vegas are way behind schedule, over budget, and in dire need for more funding. He added that there’s no saying for sure how long the project is going to take.
According to a New York Times story, “A lawyer in the audience asked how the industry could build new plants without assurances of a plan for the waste.”
A brilliant question, and one that Bodman had no answer for. Certainly it’s a question that needs to be posed to the Canadian government as well, but I wouldn’t expect any satisfactory answers.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
February 23rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Nuclear Energy is such frame
which disintegrates fundamental thermal integrity and multi-dimensional eco-system balance.
It must not hv bn used on d Earth, except cosmic-planetary emergency cases.
Even with considering d scale of its Bz & Emploment Structure and stochastics,
d transition term into its termination stage must be reduced into minimum.
D Only compatible scale alternative with multi-functional disaster-countermeasurables
is Wind(=Solar) powered N-th Order CASE.