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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Klim" data-source="post: 1543400" data-attributes="member: 773">No, but neither is much other highly-toxic industrial waste that we routinely accept as a necessary biproduct of modern society.  There are no technological barriers to a safe long-term solution - the problems are almost entirely political, and require brave decisions from our political parties (some hope!).  And there's absolutely no comparison between the environmental footprint of a deep storage facility and that of onshore windfarms.  A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable that we would soon embark on a headlong rush to irreversibly scar our peat moors with thousands of massive concrete foundations linked by hundreds of miles of new access roads and transmission lines.  Who's going to renew the damage caused by this 'renewable' energy source?<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last</a>...long enough for us to come up with better long-term solutions than onshore wind.Richard</blockquote>