Nuclear power political/social problems

As of 2002, about 43,000 metric tons of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants was stored in the United States, an amount expected to grow by 2000 metric tons per year. The storage facilities at the power plants are considered temporary and an effort to develop a permanent storage site for high-level radioactive waste has been under way since 1982. The location and development of such a site is fraught with technical, social, and political problems. 

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