‘An accident involving spent nuclear fuel can pose a threat as disastrous as that posed by reactor core meltdown … In light of (Japan’s) nuclear disaster, a major lesson can be learned related to the back end of the fuel cycle: specifically, that careful planning, not ad hoc solutions, is necessary for spent nuclear fuel’

Allison Macfarlane, 2011 ‘It’s 2050: Do you know where your nuclear waste is?’ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (4) 30 – 36