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Opposites can solve nuclear waste problems working together
Allison Macfarlane
Lake Barrett
In these challenging times of ever-increasing political polarization and strong differing personal opinions, there is hope that diverse points of view can converge to create solutions for difficult problems if we remain focused on the common good.
For us, the common interest is a solution for the broken U.S. program to dispose of the growing inventory of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from commercial nuclear energy. We strongly believe this is critical to support and enable our projected continuation and expansion of safe, reliable, clean, affordable nuclear power to support the needs of our rapidly evolving national and global societies.
J. R. Burns, K. A. Terrani (ORNL)
Transactions | Volume 119 | Number 1 | November 2018 | Pages 416-418
