07.20.02
Nukes Ahoy
Amy sent me a great link: http://www.mapscience.org/ (nw) which has some great maps to check out.
The site shows proposed routes that nuclear waste will take in its travel to Yucca Mountain in Nevada. (Privacy tip: just put in your zip code.)
Their use of the Baltimore train tunnel fire is more than a little over the top, but it does point out the fact that there are a number of different scenarios that could play out with this incredibly toxic waste.
It’s hard to imagine that humans could produce such a deadly toxin and think that the small amount of electricity that it generates would be worth it. The electricity is gone the instant the power plant shuts down. But the toxin will remain for geologic *eras*.
It’s too bad we haven’t found a way to switch that around…