Even if every gram of radioactive waste were removed from the landfill, where would it go? There are facilities in Idaho and Utah willing to accept it. But those facilities are located in communities, or near them, and those people don’t want this waste in their backyards or their gardens or their rivers or their drinking water either. Even if we box it up and send it in train cars to remote places, it will be there, ready and waiting to kill any of us long after we’ve forgotten where we put it, or what “it” even is.

I know there are a lot of HN readers that keep pushing for nuclear power. This article seems to suggest we're not ready for it. It's as simple as asking for one more failure, which can, apparently permanently destroy large areas of land.

The US government should buy every property and relocate all of those people and give them all 2 acres of land.