The honest answer is the USA has been producing a great deal of nuclear waste and ignoring the problem of what to do with it. President Obama wants more nuclear power plants, but, has not said what to do with nuclear waste. A lot of waste is stored in nuclear power plants, but, they are getting filled up fast, and that is not really a good idea. The possibility of an accident or theft is very real.
Nuclear power is neither good nor bad. The way nuclear power is produced (Safety) can be good or bad, though. Nuclear power can be generated by small power plants, creates no air pollution, and is safe when done right.
There was no testing done at Yucca mountain; it is just a place where they plan on storing nuclear waste in order to dispose of it.
Contain and control to heat things, just like our planet does.
If done properly it can be as safe or safer than other transportation, especially if the plutonium and other transuranics have already been recycled to new fuel. But this is likely to get censored as many anti-nuclear people don't want it known.
Using nuclear energy is possible, and in fact being done. It has been done since the 1940s. The first nuclear electric plant came on line some time after that, but I worked at one in the 1980s.
None. It can be easily and safely done for nuclear waste. The whole system for safe economic disposal is illustrated and discussed there. Also check the US patent offices for existing patents under the author's name.
Nuclear waste can not case an explosion is it's spent form. Once a reactor is done with Uranium rods as fuel they are put into lead lined containers and transported to spent fuel storage. A nuclear reactor can explode from hydrogen build up in the containment vessel, this is due to the reaction going on in the steam generation process, this does not happen in nuclear waste storage facilities.
No studies have been done
Nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry, study of superheavy elements, technology of accelerators, improvement of measuring devices for physics, etc.
No, the waste is radioactive and has to be stored and cooled for thousands of years to come. Research is being done into firing neutrons at the waste to deradiate them. this is a good answer. good job. i never knew that. i learn stuff everyday :D
It has already been done. South Africa dismantled its 6 nuclear weapons in 1991.