...even the shipping of the stuff to Yucca mountain is too dangerous. We're looking at years of trains filled with highly toxic radioactive waste which always has mananged to seep out. Just being the driver of one of those trains would be a life shortening proposition. Fuel rods even in the best caskets needed to be hosed down every few hours or so because they were finding inexplicable radiation outside the caskets.

The process of casketing the most toxic waste, taking it to the railroads and then railing it through many states is one I have always opposed. It will condemn X number of people to death and another X number to horrible illnesses. The science is still not fully understood, regardless of what you will hear the experts proclaim and I would rather the waste be treated on-site than moved. Creating a collection of rods from the reactors all over the nation would produce the most toxic work enviornoment in the world. Anyone working at Yucca would be "expendable" because the environment there, with such a cumulative stockpile, will emit all sorts of radiation we can't even measure yet.

Here's what science today misses.

The electromagnetic fields of these radioactive atoms can't be contained in a casket.

The alpha, beta and gamma radiation emitting from the physical element can be contained, but not the EMF fields of these radioactive elements which emit signals that can pierce the most dense lead/concrete caskets like water through a sieve. These fields are not yet recognized as a major problem - but they are.

A casket full of fuel rods or control rod ends is ever only contained partially. The fields now attract natural radiation in the environment (and yes radiation is everywhere) and draw it to the caskets like a magnet pulling iron filings. The signals of the field are compatible with the fields of naturally radioactive particles and gases, and will draw them through resonance. That is why a cumulative storage facility, with the cumulative, strengthened EMF fields of this waste would be like an "electro-magnet" drawing natural background radiation from out of the atmosphere and bring it in from all over the place as the trains would come in. The workers on the trains, transport trucks and in such a facility would be doomed. It would be assumed the caskets are leaking - because of the radiation found clinging to them, but no one would yet understand why since the caskets were NOT leaking radiation when tested before shipment.

This is why transport and cumulative storage on such a scale is the wrong solution. Technologies need to recycle and stabilize the waste on-site.

So, even though I am a proponent of nuclear power, until something better comes along* , I am not a proponent of Yucca Mountain or any other "truck and rail" plan to gather all the waste in one place.

*like tapping the EMF field of the planet for endless perfectly safe and clean power by mechanically creating emf fields in resonance but with polarity dissonance - that would act as step down transformers and power electricity producing dynamos anywhere. (Race to the patent office with this one and your young children or grandchildren will be richer than Bill Gates)