[chimera]

You made my point. There were protests, but they were irrational. Politicians got on the anti-nuke bandwagon to buy votes. The point is, there is no "back yard" involved here.

Pledges by politicians are about as useful as the methane they blow out their a$$e$. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1986 set the framework for management of "spent" fuel in this country. A Presidential candidate can pander to the anti-nuke kooks all they want about Yucca Mountain, but unless the NWPA legislation is repealed or amended, the President can't unilaterally change the policy. There would be a court challenge and the President would lose.

If we were really serious about a constructive and practical solution to waste management, we would lift the ban on fuel reprocessing in this country and also implement full actinide recycle with the recovered Pu as fuel for LWRs. Waste partitioning alone isn't going to cut it. Partitioning with actinide recycle will.

[P-40]

There were protests, but they were irrational. Politicians got on the anti-nuke bandwagon to buy votes.

That is the point. The protests are silly and irrational...but they also get on TV and few candidates are willing to brave the negative coverage. Does it matter that tens of people die in oil refineries each year yet...maybe someone has died in a nuclear accident at some point or another in America? No. It doesn't. But that foolishness matters. Just like the irrational fears that some on this board have of other energy sources, they are almost impossible to combat no matter what the evidence. People would rather be afraid of what they don't understand and too lazy to take the time to understand it.