So we built a nuke waste facility that last I heard was in the $240 billion range, that needs an additional $29 billion to possibly become operational. But we still aren’t sure we can ever use it, and yet there is no money for a wall. Is that about right?
Anyone that received power from a utility with a nuclear power plant paid money that went to the DOE to construct that site. The federal government collected the money but never took the spent fuel rods resulting in them be stored on site all over the country. That needs to be rectified.
“But we still aren’t sure we can ever use it, and yet there is no money for a wall. Is that about right?”
No, that is not about right. As far as safety and feasibility we KNOW we can use it and the material stored there will be many times more secure and safe there than all the places it is temporarily stored now. What is the expected “shelf life” of the Yucca facility? At minimum 1,000 years. The arguments against it are not science based, they are irrational.