Category Archives: Radioactive waste: a “nonexistant” problem

Neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. nuclear power industry have been able to agree on an environmentally acceptable method for disposing of the spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants. Instead, every nuclear reactor site in the country has become a de facto high-level nuclear waste repository, with the dangerous rods stored under water in pools that require constant cooling, or in dry storage above ground. These storage facilities lack the containment vessels of the reactors themselves, and are much more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.