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Still unsettled-and unsettling-is the question of how the U.S. can safely dispose of garbage from nuclear operations. Spent fuel and other wastes remain radioactive for thousands of years. At present a lot of such waste is stored under water in "swimming pools" at plant sites, but nuclear plants...
Much will depend, of course, on the outcome and the assessment of the Pennsylvania drama. The Department of Energy had planned to ask congressional approval for the building of experimental repositories for nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years. California and Wisconsin have in effect banned construction of...
A MORATORIUM on nuclear power plant construction--to provide time for a thorough re-evaluation of both atomic reactor safety and waste disposal--is long overdue.
The record on nuclear waste is no better. Despite periodic official reassurances, no proven method of safe, permanent radioactive waste disposal exists. A recent report by a federal interagency task force conceded this point, claiming that no available technology can guarantee containment of waste beyond a few thousand years.
UNTIL AND UNLESS safe reactor operation and waste disposal can be guaranteed, no new atomic plants should be built, and nuclear construction now under way--at Seabrook and elsewhere--should be halted.