U.S. Seeks Nuclear Waste Research Revival

[Emily]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-seeks-nuclear-waste-research-revival1/

U.S. Seeks Nuclear Waste Research Revival
A radioactive leak at the nation's only deep-waste repository in New Mexico has brought these facilities back into the spotlight
Mar 4, 2014 |By Jeff Tollefson and Nature magazine

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?Basically, all of the old ideas have come back out of the woodwork,? says Michael Driscoll, a nuclear engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. ?But the first thing we need is Congress to wrestle with this and revise the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.?...

One of the papers written a few years ago about WIPP said that Congress had refused to fund some important safety research there.