Nuclear Waste - Not in my back yard

[AntonL]

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110509p2a00m0na017000c.html

Japan, U.S. negotiating construction of nuclear waste facility in Mongolia

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the U.S. Department of Energy have secretly been advancing plans to construct the world's first international storage and disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel in Mongolia, it has been learned

Is this really the way to solve the problem, the only solution is that each country should be responsible for its own waste.

 

[Danuta]

Oh that's why anything in the media about Fukushima NPP and the ill effects of "radiation" is blocked. It's government money at risk in a government level money-making scheme. And the IAEA, what are they now, uranium mining consultants and salespeople?

 

[AntonL]

Finland will be storing their own waste.

a 71 minute film documenting "Onkalo"
Finland's world’s first permanent repository for nuclear waste
that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous

And Germany's depot for low level nuclear waste has problems
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14990661,00.html
and a longer article http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,577018,00.html

 

[Astronuc]

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110509p2a00m0na017000c.html

Japan, U.S. negotiating construction of nuclear waste facility in Mongolia

Is this really the way to solve the problem, the only solution is that each country should be responsible for its own waste.

Definitely. If not Nevada, the how about Wyoming?