High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal: Policy and Prognosis

Solving the United States&#39; high level nuclear waste<br/>disposal dilemma is vital to our energy independence and<br/>economic growth. The issue has been stalled for decades and<br/>presently faces enormous political obstacles despite renewed<br/>government effort to achieve a solution. Some technical<br/>questions persist, however the issue is mainly one of politics.<br/>The current course of action, in which the federal government<br/>is forcing a state to accept siting of the permanent waste<br/>repository is flawed and politically deadlocked. A better<br/>plan would be one in which the region accepting the repository<br/>benefits and thus seeks to host, vice impede, its construction.