I never understood the controversy surrounding the storage of spent nuclear fuel anyways.  From what I've hear the amount of leftover nuclear fuel the average person would use in a lifetime is about the size of a hockey puck.  Fossil fuels are a different story though altogether.  I don't know the exact figures but fosil fuels weigh in the tonnage range..  My point being, why do we even want to store this spent nuclear waste on earth, why not ship it to the biggest dump in the universe,, outerspace or even the sun. i' mean if you really think you might be able to recycle the crap put it in an orbit around one of the moons of saturn. There problem solved.  Instead of wasting all this money to find out there is water on mars or the moon or whatever which we knew already via spectral analysis  why not concentrate our efforts here on the homefront.  Hope I'm not getting off topic here.

yes nukes:)