Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants has been temporarily stored on-site, but this is not a satisfactory kind of place for long-range storage. Since no suitable plan of safe permanent storage of such waste from the nation' s existing and planned nuclear plants has been devised, some people propose that we should stop trying to develop such a plan and instead should shut down all present nuclear plants and build no new nuclear plants.
The proposal mentioned above falls short of offering a complete solution to the problem it addresses because the risks of unsafe disposal of waste from nuclear power plants lie in the future, but the benefits from such plants are in the present.