The site in the Nevada desert 90 miles from Las Vegas would store 70,000 tons of radioactive material from the nation's 103 nuclear power plants for an estimated 10,000 years.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Where else?
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Reid warned the plan would require the equivalent of 100,000 nuclear waste-laden trucks or 20,000 rail cars moving through 43 states from existing storage sites to Nevada.
Do you realize that the people working in the undergroud facility will receive less radiation poisioning than the average US citizen? Because we get more radiation poisioning from the sun each day than they will get from handling that material. Plus they will be protected from the sun's radiation because they're working under Yucca mountain.
If you think the storage containers we keep the stuff in is unsafe to handle or is gonna start leaking in a few years, then you are just not educated on the subject.
Nuclear power plants are the cheapest and the cleanest source of real power that we have. I say "real" power becuase a nuclear plant is capable of tremendous power output while other clean power sources like wind or solar by comparison produce such a small amout of power as to be laughable.
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