Reid’s out of the senate. Time to open the nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain and build more safe nuclear power plants. This Hanford story gets the headline of the day because it says “nuclear” and scares people. Nobody will be injured.
If we didn’t have such a backwards regulatory environment and risk aversion system, we might well be able to be putting sealed nuclear plants under the floor of people’s garages that would provide power to their house for 50 years like a battery.