Reply #11: Sweden model is far superior to US when it comes to a plan for nuclear waste. [View All]

Legislation in Sweden gave every town with x number of miles of a potential site (can't remember exact limit) complete veto power over a storage site. Thus it is impossible to build a repository without approval of citizens closest to it.

So unlike US model where the "top" decided Yucca Mt is the site and then attempted (with no success) to push it forward for 25 years Sweden started evaluating potential sites and then left final decision up the citizens.

We could learn a lot from Sweden. The bottom up approach has been far more successful than the cram down from top aproach tried in the United States. Then again scientific literacy is higher so they are working with an informed population and a population who genuinely cares about the environment.