What are the advantages and disadvantages of dumping nuclear waste at the bottom of the ocean?
The main advantage is that it would not be in Harry Reid’s backyard. Sea-based approaches to the disposal of nuclear waste make the waste much harder for terrorists, rebels, or criminals to steal for use in radiological weapons or in nuclear bombs than than do land-based ones. The main disadvantage is that it would not be easily retrievable, if it turns out that the nuclear “waste” is a valuable resource needed for some new process. Here is an interesting take on used nuclear fuel: MARCH 13, 2009 There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste By WILLIAM TUCKER ‘White House Buries Yucca,” read the headlines last week after Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said the proposed storage of nuclear waste in a Nevada mountain is “no longer an option.” Instead, Mr. Chu told a Senate hearing, the Obama administration will cut all but the most rudimentary funding to Yucca and be contentto allow spent fuel rods to sit in storage pools and dry casks atreactor sites “while the administration devises a new str
