Finns Show the Way on Nuclear Waste Storage
June 28, 2017
6/26/17 – Plans for building the nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, fell apart a decade ago because, in part, federal officials didn’t do enough to win support from state and local residents, analysts have said in Issues. Heeding this lesson, Finland is now well along in building what will be the world’s first long-term nuclear waste repository, with one official recounting that community involvement was key and that “very soon we learned that we had to be very open.”