NRC Kabuki Gets Senate Curtain Call

The nuclear Industry understands that unless they have a place to hide their WASTE far from the people that live near these reactors, they will face increasing opposition to the reactors remaining in operation!

The problems with the massive amount of Spent Fuel Rods being stored in the Fukushima Complex are now cause for Global concern because if SFP#4 collapses for any reason their will be GLOBAL radioactive pollution unlike anything man has seen or said another way, a Hydro-Corium Radioactive Steam “event” that will continue to spew radioactivity “forever”…

The above information is gradually becoming known and is even now being mentioned and or discussed on MSM: http://is.gd/MPKSZX

So what to do about it ?:

low cost solution to America’s “long term” radioactive waste storage problem:

Make use of our Military Testing Bases and or our MOA’s (Military Operation Area’s) out west, which are really huge tracts of land (think tens of thousands of acres) used ONLY by the military and already secured by them 24/7!

Placing these very large (heavy) concrete casks in a poke-a-dot pattern will allow for at least 50 to 100 years of storage, safe from everything except a War, (in which case every reactor is just as vulnerable) and then revisit the storage problem then; at which time, probably a future solution will allow for an even better lower cost “final solution”…

Because these casks would be very large and all look alike nobody would know what was in any one of them, which would be yet another level of security for the casks with higher levels of nuclear waste! An ideal outside coating for these casks would be similar to the spray-on “bed liner” used for pickup trucks that not only prevents rusting and or damage for the life of the vehicle but would also seal the casks to prevent leakage of any kind!

Hopefully these casts would be similar in size to a large shipping container so that existing material handling equipment could be used to load, unload and or move them about without “inventing” a mega hauler vehicle. By keeping the “footprint” of these casks similar to a large 40 foot container, the stacking and or placement of them might also be semi or fully automated which would not only save money but again keep the exact location of any specific cast secret! The monitoring of these casks 24/7/365 could even be done via satellite since these casks are similar in size to rocket launchers which are easily seen from space.

In another 50 to 100 years, storage technology will be such that, yet another lower cost solution for all this waste will found, and then it can be considered verses continuing to using the above storage plan… Perhaps like lifting it all into space via a space elevator and then shoving it in an orbit into the SUN…

BTW: The Space Elevator (which I have heard the Japanese are now working on) would make lifting heavy items into orbit both safe and cheap…

As a geologist, I am familiar with the complex structural geology of that area. I am surprised that Yucca Mountain was ever seriously considered, and even more surprised that began costly work on the project before addressing all of the possible concerns.