3_14159td t1_iu7gjfx wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:21 AM

Reply to comment by Magmaster12 in Poland picks U.S. offer for its first nuclear power plant -PM by SunfireGaren

The US doesn't do that... Yucca mountain, the best solution, was killed decades ago by nimbys and greedy politicians. There isn't any commercial nuclear waste being stored in NV.

porncrank t1_iu7tozw wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:45 AM

Yucca mountain was cancelled, but I toured a nuclear waste storage facility at the Nevada Atomic Test Site. It's this place:

https://www.nnss.gov/pages/programs/RWM/wastemanagement.html

I'm not sure what qualifies as "low level nuclear waste" that is stored there.

3_14159td t1_iu7uog6 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:58 AM

As far as I've had answered, that's mostly ancillary articles from the various experiments that took place on the site. Think like Curie's radioactive notebooks and such. There's still a number of "abandoned" areas on the NNSS awaiting evaluation and cleanup.