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Briefly, I would suggest that the science has been tainted as much by a culture of fear in relation to anything nuclear as it has by the DOE's own blunders. I was at Yucca Mountain some months ago and just published a lengthy article in The Believer about the feasibility of the project and the historical and cultural bases for the opposition to it. It's called "Menacing Earthworks," and I think it goes some way toward understanding and explaining the issues discussed in these comments and the lack of political will among nominees to make a decision about what to do with our nuclear waste.
The full text is available here:
http://alexanderprovan.wordpress.com/200...