{"id":1420,"date":"2017-06-10T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2017-06-10T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:28:32","slug":"finland-works-quietly-to-bury-its-nuclear-reactor-waste-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/finland-works-quietly-to-bury-its-nuclear-reactor-waste-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Works, Quietly, to Bury Its Nuclear Reactor Waste &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A plan to build a repository in granite bedrock has progressed smoothly for years, in contrast to the United States\u2019 experience with Yucca Mountain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/09\/science\/nuclear-reactor-waste-finland.html\">Finland Works, Quietly, to Bury Its Nuclear Reactor Waste &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my fairly unqualified opinion, geologic storage is a terrible idea. The US should build a fast neutron\/burner reactor to dispose of existing spent fuel sitting in pools at reactor sites across the country. Possible sites might include Idaho or Oak Ridge National Labs, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah_River_Site\">Savannah River Site<\/a> in South Carolina. For all I know there are existing assets that could be repurposed for this.<\/p>\n<p>If spent fuel reprocessing is undesirable in the long term due to geopolitical\/non-proliferation concerns, we just shouldn&#8217;t have civilian nuclear power with a once-through fuel cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to build a repository in granite bedrock has progressed smoothly for years, in contrast to the United States\u2019 experience with Yucca Mountain. Source: Finland Works, Quietly, to Bury Its Nuclear Reactor Waste &#8211; The New York Times In my fairly unqualified opinion, geologic storage is a terrible idea. The US should build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}