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Avril 2010 / New Scientist

Drilling deep under the US to dispose of nuclear waste



By Phil McKenna

THERE are times when letting go is the best way to move forward. When the US abandoned plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca mountain, Nevada, there was no alternative in sight. Now, less than two months after that decision to walk away from a decades-long, multibillion-dollar boondoggle, a promising solution is coming into view.

What is being proposed is not another Yucca mountain-style set of tunnels in an even more remote location, but hundreds of boreholes (...)