dpb wrote:

Oren wrote:
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Just a layman here, BUT there are a lot of transport problems to be
faced in our future. Particularly trucking and train safety.


No. Spent fuel transport casks have been demonstrated experimentally
to take direct hit from 70-mph railroad locomotive followed by fire
and not leak contamination. There's no significant radioactive risk.

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What about earthquakes at Yucca Mt.?

Just yesterday Vegas had a small quake.

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What about them? If worst were to come to worst, it will simply bury
the waste underground. Meanwhile, the facility is designed to
accommodate seismic activity. There are far more real dangers and
boogey men to worry over in this world.

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Being buried far underground does not necessarily contain the
radioactivity (10,000 years worth?)..