Nuclear regulators back full-scale cask testing

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Full-scale tests of nuclear waste shipping casks would build the public’s confidence in the Yucca Mountain Project even though less expensive computer modeling can gain results just as well, the government’s chief nuclear regulators said Wednesday.”

The gist of the article is that the tests already done on scale models are believed to be accurate, but doing full-scale tests will be expensive ($1 million per cask) and not yeild as much data as the earlier tests.