“Republicans Open Inquiry on Yucca Mountain Shutdown.” See http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/republicans-open-inquiry-on-yucca-mountain-shutdown/
This raises the issue about what we should do with nuclear waste. I have a basic question: Regardless of political opposition, where is the safest and best place, from a scientific standpoint, to store nuclear waste? Is that place Yucca Mountain.
JASON J. CZARNEZKI 
April 5, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Within the continental U.S., it probably is Yucca Mountain or some other place within the arid West.
April 5, 2011 at 3:21 PM
That has always been my understanding.
April 6, 2011 at 12:07 AM
Particularly if nuclear energy in the US is part of the solution to global climate change (which it seems to be a necessary ingredient) figuring this out is quite a pressing problem.