The ABC reports – Six sites shortlisted for Australia’s first nuclear waste dump; Government faces battle to convince locals worried over safety.
Reading into this we find the sites are picked from a list where landowners have offered their land for sale – at a fat premium – as the site for this Commonwealth facility. And there is a further $10million to placate the surrounding community. Surely a more logical process would entail nuclear experts selecting the best site. But have we tried that for decades and the Greens aided and abetted by their media mates always succeed in scaremongering this sensible idea into oblivion. That is the history.
Forget storing it. We have obviously given up on stopping proliferation. Let’s just start reprocessing it for more energy. There will be far less dangerous waste left if it is used for fuel and reprocessed multiple times than if it is just stored. Ask France.
Old article, but still relevant:
www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/05/18/18climatewire-is-the-solution-to-the-us-nuclear-waste-prob-12208.html?pagewanted=all