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hazards the people accept without thinking about them. And they've
whipped up a frenzy of "not in my backyard".

But powerplants (of any sort), prisons, dumpsites, etc have to go
*somewhere*. Eventually, the demand or need is going to result in
trouble because there will be problems due to something getting built
in a not so good site because there was too much political pressure
from the best site.

Oh yes, that reminds me. Little know detail regarding the infamous
"Love Canal" mess. The site was properly capped. It wouldn't have
leaked for a *long* time. But the local goverment ignored the warnings
on the maps and dug a trench thru the middle of the dumpsite to run
water and sewer lines!!!

Mind you, building houses so close shouldn't have been allowed either,
but again that was a bad decision by the zoning boards.

Yet another example of letting political types make technical decisions:

In Utah, there was an explosives plant. It'd been there for decades.
Then the city (county?) decided to build a *school* across the road
from it. *Over* the objections from the plant. 

Eventually, they forced the plant to move by re-zoning the area
(illegally, in my opinion.) Needless to say, the plant moved to another
state and the town lost a major employer.

Do you see a pattern here? 

Oh, and before you bring it up, I don't see a Love Canal type goof
happening with the Yucca Flats site. It's too deep and too isolated.
There's not a lot that would need to be dug that deep in the same sort
of formation.

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