[P-40]

Store it another 50 years at Yucca Mountain

And the fight at Yucca Mountain has been going on for how long? No one wants the stuff in their back yard.

yet solar gives us less than 1% of our energy.

That is a lot of energy. Now that we have abandoned the Carter-era rules and you can have solar concentrator facilities of substantial size, it will play a larger role. It is cheap, reliable, and waste-free.

[WOSG]

“No one wants the stuff in their back yard. “

A remote mountain is in nobody’s ‘backyward’, and the Congress has resolved it. Yucca Mountain has been chosen.
nevertheless, used nuclear fuel can be recycled to minimize waste streams and eliminate completely the ‘long-lived waste’ that is a concern.

“yet solar gives us less than 1% of our energy.

That is a lot of energy.”

LOL. ‘less than 1%’ as in a fraction of even that.

Nuclear power generating capacity is 105,585 MWs, enough for 50 million homes. THAT IS A LOT OF POWER.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html

Go find out how much solar contributed and report on it.

“It is cheap, reliable, and waste-free.”
Nuclear power can make that claim, not solar.
Solar power remains hugely expensive, not competitive with
other forms of energy production and only put in place where massively subsidized.

[chimera]

No one wants the stuff in their back yard...

Unless you're a troglodyte or a C.H.U.D. or one of the Mole People, 2000 ft, down in volcanic tuff is nobody's "back yard". The place is on the grounds of the Nevada Test Site. They used to light off atomic bombs right on the surface in that place. That is nobody's "back yard" unless you're The Atomic Kid.