Nuclear power greener/Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste

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Points Made
The issue with the appropriate, ensuring method of the complete disposal of nuclear waste is that there is none because it has never been accomplished before.

Methods
A study by the US government and industry scientists of a low level radioactive waste commercial site in Maxey Flats, Kentucky found that stored plutonium was much more harmful than they had previously expected. The facility was supposed to be a low-level waste site where the material was disposed of in hard shale with no expectations of any harmful effects. It actually migrated 2 miles offsite in less than 10 years. Although scientists at the site believed they had taken all necessary precautions and that there was no way the radioactive material could have any harmful effects, they were terribly wrong. There is no safe, viable option for disposal of radioactive waste.