  A Short History of Dry Cask Nuclear Waste Storage The Endless
Simmer  In Washington DC, a recent Senate subcommittee hearing
was held on nuclear waste.  It stretched on and on for several
hours.  Only “experts” and Senators spoke.  It was chaired by
Senator Tom Carper (D, DE), who not-too-subtly confessed to
possessing not a whit of knowledge about the issues:  At every
turn he would say things like, “I want to thank you for your
report, which the experts tell me is very good.”  He did admit
that his “tiny little state” is much too small to have the
opportunity to bid for the privilege and PROFIT of having a
federal jail facility built within its borders, let alone a
nuclear waste dump.  But please come visit Rehoboth Bay when you
get a chance!  It hasn’t been Fukushima’d yet by Hope Creek or
Salem Units 1 or 2, chugging away, rusting away, vulnerable to
earthquakes and liquefaction as they sit on their manmade
islands in the middle of the Delaware River, along Delaware’s
northeastern edge.  Essentially all