Spent fuel is the nuclear elephant in the room

Dear Editor,Over the past months, there have been several letters to the editor advocating nuclear power’s return to Vermont. Various reasons are given for this view.Not one of these letters has addressed the issue of what to do with the spent fuel. The casks of spent fuel — otherwise known as high-level nuclear waste — from the decommissioned Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant are still lining the bank of the Connecticut River in Vernon. If anything were to cause one to ruptu