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The Week, January 26, 2007, page 24, reported a new study: “Special new containers designed to hold nuclear waste for tens of thousands of years may begin to fall apart in just 210 years,” the study found. “Researchers… had pinned their hopes on zircon, a material they thought was stable enough to store the waste….” The scientists had based this belief on computer simulations, but they were “startled” when they discovered how alpha radiation affected the “zircon” in reality.
On March 6, 2009, The Denver Post, page 14A, carried an Associated Press report by H. Josef Hebert according to which the U.S. Government had abandoned the plan to store reactor waste at Yucca Mountain. This after having spent 13.5 billion dollars on the project.
These reports are abundant and are developing every year.
Most likely, no definitive action
will ever be taken for the permanent disposal of radioactive waste in the
U.S. The problem will be allowed to drag on indefinitely, and meanwhile
new nuclear power-plants will continue to be built, the festering pools of
deadly stuff will grow and grow…
