Climate change is renewing interest in nuclear energy, which does not emit climate-warming carbon dioxide. But what will we do with the waste?
"We've loaded over 3,000 of these systems since 1986. And we haven't had we haven't had a problem. And nothing's gone wrong. No radiation has been released," McCullum told CNBC.
"Then it just takes one security force and one maintenance crew and one operations crew and on it, it would just be much more efficient," Nesbit told CNBC. "What they're doing is they're trying to start small and eat the elephant one bite at a time instead of all at once." , which promise to be safer and more efficient than conventional designs. That means there's also renewed interest in figuring out the waste problem.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, and Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., testified at a hearing on the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project.Other experts believe DOE's request for information on an interim solution is nothing more than showboating bureaucracy to forestall the inevitable creation of a permanent geologic waste repository in Yucca Mountain.
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