Old and Grunpy wrote:

To Mr. McCain

According to recent paper publishing you have stated that:
You are looking to build additional 45 nuclear power plants
I believe it was said by year 2020.

Dear Sir: at present time according to news media we have
77,000 tons of nuclear waste that we have no ability to get rid
of, we have no way to store it,

We have ways to get rid of it, through reprocessing, and if we had no
way to store it, what have we been doing with it for the past half-
century? The fact is that almost all nuclear waste is stored in
welded stainless steel cylinders at the reactor sites.

OTOH the goal of building 45 new reactors by 2020 is probably
unrealistic because of the finances and short supply of production
capacity. It's possible that even the supply of cement and water
won't be sufficient -- back when the US was thinking of building 1,000
super-hardened missile silos, it was estimated the effort would take
10-20% of the water in the western states and maybe as much as half of
the cement.

A another thing we don't want other Countries to have nuclear plants because
they can not be trusted I agree!

Probably the biggest problem. The proposal to put all nuclear fuel
and waste under UN control should be implemented, even though it won't
prevent the most ardent nations from producing nuclear weapons.