Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Radioactive Nimby: No One Wants Nuclear Waste

Here is an article from today's New York Times exploring the chief unresolved challenge to nuclear energy: where to put the waste. In the American southwest, plans to store radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have run into serious opposition, and other examples of the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) drama are being played out around the world.

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