What Are The Pros And Cons Of Storing Nuclear Waste
If nuclear waste is harmful it should be stored away from human populated areas.
If nuclear waste is harmful it should not be stored by humans, but in less to non-populated areas. “Spent nuclear fuel remains highly dangerous for prolonged periods. It has long lived radioactive materials in it that can contaminate the environment and harm public health” (USA Today). Thousands of Americans are exposed to nuclear waste sites across the country. And if we do not take action to find somewhere else to store this waste. Many innocent people will be affected in the long run. There was one significant theme that recurred in almost every article and web page I searched about nuclear waste. This pertained to Yucca Mountain, the controversy of storing nuclear waste by the famous Yucca Mountains has been a hot topic dating back to 1987. “Recently, given the cost disadvantage of long-term storage and the fact that it does not really solve the problem, scientists have been pushing for a switch of focus to recycling spent fuel. Much of the fuel that is considered spent by US standards has life left in it, and can be reprocessed into other …show more content…
In almost every article it had somewhere, where it talked about the surrounding area the waste dump was being located at.” Utahn’s overwhelmingly oppose a proposal to “temporarily” store up to 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel rods on tribal lands in Tooele’s skull valley. In a poll 400 Utahn’s conducted for KSL-TV and the Deseret Morning News, 84 percent of 400 people polled oppose the nuclear waste repository “(Deseret News Editorial). Researching this project did not just make me aware of the unsafe placing of nuclear waste. It has opened my mind to realize there are multiple issues in America with population safety and concern. I.e. dump sites, laying land over “dead mind field, chemical plants located near small towns &
If nuclear waste is harmful it should not be stored by humans, but in less to non-populated areas. “Spent nuclear fuel remains highly dangerous for prolonged periods. It has long lived radioactive materials in it that can contaminate the environment and harm public health” (USA Today). Thousands of Americans are exposed to nuclear waste sites across the country. And if we do not take action to find somewhere else to store this waste. Many innocent people will be affected in the long run. There was one significant theme that recurred in almost every article and web page I searched about nuclear waste. This pertained to Yucca Mountain, the controversy of storing nuclear waste by the famous Yucca Mountains has been a hot topic dating back to 1987. “Recently, given the cost disadvantage of long-term storage and the fact that it does not really solve the problem, scientists have been pushing for a switch of focus to recycling spent fuel. Much of the fuel that is considered spent by US standards has life left in it, and can be reprocessed into other …show more content…
In almost every article it had somewhere, where it talked about the surrounding area the waste dump was being located at.” Utahn’s overwhelmingly oppose a proposal to “temporarily” store up to 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel rods on tribal lands in Tooele’s skull valley. In a poll 400 Utahn’s conducted for KSL-TV and the Deseret Morning News, 84 percent of 400 people polled oppose the nuclear waste repository “(Deseret News Editorial). Researching this project did not just make me aware of the unsafe placing of nuclear waste. It has opened my mind to realize there are multiple issues in America with population safety and concern. I.e. dump sites, laying land over “dead mind field, chemical plants located near small towns &