Sandia National Labs suggests we take another look at underground salt deposits for nuclear waste
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 11:32
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- In light of the Obama administration's decision to effectively end the discussion of using the Yucca mountain site in Nevada as a location for permanent storage of nuclear waste, Sandia National Laboratories, (SNL) headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, has released a paper wherein it calls for new discussions about the possibility of using underground salt deposits to permanently store the nations growing stockpile of nuclear waste.