Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis

As reported by Gregg Levine and Caroline Preston in The New Yorker.

The article quotes Beyond Nuclear: One option is consolidated interim storage. Under this plan, the spent fuel would be moved from plants in thirty states to a handful of regional, aboveground storage facilities—what Kevin Kamps, a waste specialist at the watchdog Beyond Nuclear, has called “parking-lot dumps.”

But of course, to move the irradiated nuclear fuel from a place like Entergy Nuclear's Pilgrim atomic reactor near Boston, to a de facto permanent parking lot dump in, say, Andrews County, west Texas, would require shipments by road, rail, and/or barge through most states, including major population centers. Hence, the risk of Mobile Chernobyls, Dirty Bombs on Wheels, and Floating Fukushimas.