It is very difficult to show that water will in fact get to any canisters, solvate any radionuclides, leach into a public water supply or hurt any one.
If Yucca mountain is built, probably long before anything can happen to the canisters, future generations will be digging the stuff up to recover the valuable materials.
My understanding is that it's also very difficult to demonstrate that the proposed site is safe. Basically, it's a big crap shoot. Perhaps a justifiable one, perhaps not. I don't have a strong opinion on that. But the way in which Congress, the DoE, and the rest of the government are going about shoving Yucca Mountain down Nevada's throat with no alternatives under consideration leaves a lot to be desired.
--Peter
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