Friday
Nov252016
Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis
As reported by Gregg Levine and Caroline Preston in The New Yorker.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear: One option is consolidated interim storage. Under this plan, the spent fuel would be moved from plants in thirty states to a handful of regional, aboveground storage facilities—what Kevin Kamps, a waste specialist at the watchdog Beyond Nuclear, has called “parking-lot dumps.”