Nuclear Waste Is The Most Dangerous Homeless Problem In the United States

Randy Smith
4 min readApr 7, 2024

Did you know spent radioactive, toxic nuclear fuel remains dangerous for 100,000 years? Did you also know the United States has over approximately 111 million pounds of nuclear waste located across the country being produced with 92 nuclear reactors and no long-term dedicated and safe storage site for the waste that’s produced?

Impressionist Image of Yucca Mountain and Its Insides as Envisioned in The Raffle

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Randy Smith

This is my pen name. I am the author of The Raffle Novel and other random musings about our semi-dystopian world: https://bit.ly/theraffle