On 31/10/16 20:37, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Tim
Streater escribió:

A more pertinent question is to wonder why it should soar.

Yucca Mountain: $9 billion and counting. Unused (abandoned)

Construction started in 2002, project abandoned in 2009. "the federal
government owes utility companies somewhere between $300 and $500
million per year in compensation for failing to comply with the contract
it signed to take the spent nuclear fuel by 1998"

WIPP: $19 billion and counting. In use

"Deep geological repository" aka big hole in the ground. In 2014 a
barrel of waste from Los Alamos packed with the wrong kind of cat litter
exploded and contaminated part of the plant. Radioactive waste was
spread by the ventilation system and vented to the outside.

I think it would be safe to say that $9bn/$19bn is "soaring".

Sigh. More guardian scare stories.
More received wisdom.
Zero original thought.

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