
How dangerous is nuclear waste?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Challenges of Nuclear Waste Reprocessing
In 1957 the national academy of sciences came to a conclusion that spent nuclear fuel in high-level waste and we had both of it by 1957. In 1987 congress short circuited the process of the nuclear waste policy. The two efforts to cite consolidated interim storage sites are in new mexico in texasBoth governors as different as they could be governor abbot or luhan grisham have expressed ferocious non consent for these sites. We're going to keep ending up in this cul-de-sac until we deal with consent and really figure out how it works.
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