• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    All the waste a plant ever produces in its lifetime can be contained with ease on site.

    Won’t that create a bunch of targets all over the country? Then terrorists or enemy states can use simple small bombs to make whole areas uninhabitable for the next millennium.

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      5 months ago

      The casks waste is stored in would take bunker buster yields to breach.

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        5 months ago

        Strong enough to be hit by a train full speed too IIRC, plus if we actually built Yucca Mtn anyone getting within 500 miles of Fallon is getting vaporized over the sand long before they can try busting any bunkers