Will Obama propose Illinois as the new waste disposal site?

[bananas]

Obama says Yucca is out.
He's from Illinois, which has more reactors than any other state.
Most reactors are on the east coast, a disposal site in the east makes a lot more sense than shipping the waste all the way across the country.
So why not Illinois to replace Yucca Mountain?

[dkf]

1. The waste disposal site needs to have certain geologic features.

That is why they picked Yucca Mountain.

[bananas]

4. Yucca wasn't the only place they were looking at

Yucca was chosen for political reasons more than scientific reasons.

[dkf]

6. In any case, if they are producing it there, they must be storing it there.

Since they aren't moving it to Yucca.

[bluestateguy]

2. I think the most back-assward state should get it

Right now that would seem to be Utah to me, but I can be persuaded otherwise.

[truedelphi]

3. In France, they were encasing nuclear waste inside glass

So that it could not so easily leak out and get into the water table.

Obama has mentioned that it is not fair to store the wastes from one state in another. (At least I think he said something about that during one of the first primary debates.)

[bananas]

5. Then Illinois it is!

If he says it isn't fair to store the waste from one state in another,
then Illinois must be the place he's thinking of,
because it has more reactors than any other state.

Maybe he'll propose a geologic depository in each state which has reactors?
I think there are 38 states with nuclear reactors.

If we switch away from coal, there will be a lot of unemployed coal miners.
Digging 38 big holes would provide them jobs.

[truedelphi]

7. The thing is, we have the technology 2 make the waste disposal issue not so tremendously fraught

With danger and trepidation.

Yes, with nuclear waste I can see people in France worried some three hundred years from now, after the glass has chipped or broken.

But here in the USA - we have to worry just six months after storing it!!

BAck in the mid-seventies, one of the components of the top nuclear power plant people's notions on nuclear wastes involved how we would simply bury it on Indian Reservations. Not even necessarily contain it - just bury it!!