The "scientization" of Yucca Mountain | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Instead of being permanently stored in a geologic repository, or temporarily placed in dry-cask storage, most of the nation's high-level nuclear waste continues to pile up in spent-fuel pools that are much more densely packed than those at Fukushima Daiichi."
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