New York Times: The American program to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and other highly radioactive wastes is at a standstill for a variety of reasons. First-of-a-kind efforts tend to be technologically difficult, but the real problems are not hardware issues, according to a new book, Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste.
The technical characteristics of nuclear waste make the disposal problem difficult, yet it is the human factors that have made it intractable, the authors, William M....