Selasa, 18 Oktober 2011

Repurposing Yucca Mountain won't be easy


Accessible via breakable roads. Features one abundance absolute a 5-mile U-shaped tunnel, traveling nowhere. Use the railroad advance in the adit at your own risk. On-site barrio do not accommodated OSHA standards. Must be accommodating to accord with three government landlords. Property burdened by lawsuits galore.That, in essence, is a description of Yucca Mountain, Nevada.For 30 years, the abundance was the accepted website of the nation's nuclear decay repository. Billions were spent belief and advancing the abundance to accept acclimated ammunition from the nation's 103 bartering nuclear ability plants.But afterwards the Obama administering dead affairs for the nuclear dump, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, asked the Government Accountability Office to attending for added uses for the 230-square-mile website a two-hour drive from Las Vegas.On Monday, the GAO appear a account of 30 another uses for Yucca Mountain.Some of the proposals will animate advocates of the old nuclear athenaeum plan while infuriating its opponents. Fully 10 suggestions absorb nuclear storage, analysis or generation. Suggestions cover authoritative Yucca an "interim" accumulator website for nuclear decay (as against to a abiding accumulator site), a nuclear decay reprocessing plant, a analysis reactor site, a nuclear ability bulb or an air-cooled underground nuclear reactor.

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