I've been to mountain top: As life winds down, the opening sentence of this paper lifts me.

[NNadir]

2. The focus on "spent" nuclear fuel as if it was a real problem is a absurd.

The "problem" is purely the result of selective attention, selective attention that is proving quite deadly.

Today, 19,000 people will die from spent combustible fuel, also know as "air pollution." That is even without considering the cost of climate change.

I've been hearing this crap about so called "nuclear waste" for thirty years, but what I haven't heard is a case where the storage of used nuclear fuel over the nearly 70 year history of commercial nuclear power has killed as many people as will die in the next 12 hours from air pollution.

Used nuclear fuel is a valuable resource which is critical to the survival of civilization. As long as we carry on as if it is a problem, the only energy problem that matters, rather than a resource, the more we will continue to make the state of affairs with things that do matter worse.

The state of affairs to which I refer is the fact that the planet is in flames, and yet...and yet...I find myself talking about used nuclear fuel which has a spectacular record of safe handling.

It is nothing if not absurd.