[Cincinatus' Wife]

A poll at the WSJ, "Should work be completed on the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada?" has close to 3500 responses. Article linked above.

Yes: 95%

No:5%

I rounded numbers.

[JoeFromSidney]

"Should work be completed on the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada?"

I oppose the whole idea of a nuclear waste storage facility. There is too much valuable material in "spent fuel" to bury it forever. It's the uranium and plutonium in the "spent" fuel that have long lives, and they're valuable nuclear fuels. Plutonium and U238 should be recycled in reactors. The fission products could be separated out and stored, if there is no further use for them. They don't need to be stored for geologic ages. In something like 700 years they will have decayed to less radioactivity than the original uranium ore. Storing the fission products has the virtue that if we ever figure out a use for any of those isotopes, they'll be easily recoverable.