With no long-term solution, nuclear pallbearers bury waste in America’s backyard
MAR 16, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023156
Wired : This summer, dozens of workers at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in central California will carry out an interment. They’ll carefully begin moving 133 tons of spent fuel from temporary cooling ponds into a nuclear necropolis of eight cement-and-steel tombs in a field adjacent to the plant. If all goes according to plan, they won’t have to worry about the radioactive detritus for another 100 years.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
