WATCH: WHERE WILL CANADA PUT ITS FOREVER NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP?

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WATCH: WHERE WILL CANADA PUT ITS FOREVER NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP?

[ https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7196767 ]

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 10 minutes, 20 seconds

QUOTE: "Two Ontario towns are voting to decide whether to allow Canada's nuclear waste to be buried underneath them, forever. Andrew Chang explains how it would work, the risks and the big incentives the towns are being offered."

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To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain

[ https://thebulletin.org/2024/04/to-find ... n_04302024 ]

By David Klaus | April 30, 2024

EXCERPT: "A mining machine excavates alcoves and niches for exploratory scientific testing in September 2013 at Yucca Mountain. Thousands of studies of the site's geology, hydrology, chemistry and climate to determine Yucca Mountain's suitability as the nation's first repository for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The project has stalled since the Obama administration attempted to withdraw the license application of the Yucca Mountain project in 2010. (Credit: US Energy Department, via Flickr)

A recent congressional hearing strangely resembled the film Groundhog Day. The hearing—titled “American Nuclear Energy Expansion: Spent Fuel Policy and Innovation”—not only rekindled a decades-old debate about whether to recycle spent nuclear fuel from reactors; it also provided a platform to relive yet again the fantasy that somehow the US government can resolve all of the political, legal, and technical issues necessary to build a permanent nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. . . . ."

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