The POLITICIANS of a certain party will not allow a solution. The Yucca Mountain project was well under way, but certain POLITICIANS decided to make it a political issue, so they killed it for no technical or scientific reason.
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Yucca Mountain also had the following technical problems:
GEOLOGY and LOCATION: There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site. These issues include hydrology, inadequacy of the proposed waste package, repository design and volcanism. The Yucca site is seismically and volcanically active, porous and incapable of geologically containing the waste. Yucca’s aquifer drains to the Amargosa Valley, one of Nevada’s most productive agricultural regions, is adjacent to a busy and growing Nellis Air Force Base, and is only 90 miles from our largest metropolitan area, Las Vegas.
https://ag.nv.gov/Hot_Topics/Issue/Yucca/#:~:text=These%20is….
Read the whole article for more technical problems.
Jaak