Indian Reservations Should Have Alternatives to Storing Nuclear Waste for Income

Storing nuclear waste from nuclear power plants has always been a problem. Thirty years after Yucca Mountain as a bright star or hollow mountain for storing the nation's nuclear waste was supported by a Congressional Act- the Energy Policy Act of 1992, most of the nuclear waste from reactors still remains stored in temporary canisters on sites where they are used.  President Obama cut funding to Yucca Mountain in 2009. Indian tribes have, because of legal systems somewhat separate from regular judicial oversight,  been tempted to store nuclear waste in exchange for economic prospects of an immediate positive nature. 

It seems wrong to expect Indian Reservations to be the sites for storing nuclear waste with all of the potential harm that can cause. No systems design is flawless to such an extent that unforeseeable deleterious changes are precluded from occurring. Though the Trump administration has pursued a consent based program of deposition of nuclear waste that began in 2016, if I remember, economic coercion of the poor offered a poison pill in exchange for cash is not an unfamiliar and less than honorable political ploy. It is wrong to pursue an implicitly immoral policy even if the exploited party consents with sufficient pressure. It is morally comparable to starving someone then offering them an opportunity to sell their blood so they can buy food.

There is a prospect for advanced technology to research and find a way to reprocess spent nuclear fuel such that it can be reconditioned and reused and thereby making it more safe for eventual storage with the most dangerous period lasting just several hundred years rather than several thousand. Indian tribes having already lost much of their original lands and being reduced in numbers should be the last people expected to hoist the nation's affluent waste on their lands to potentially poison their health.

Instead, Indian tribes should be provided with some alternative economic betterment opportunities to nuclear waste storage. Perhaps they could become locations for producing solar cells- the Chinese have already achieved solar cell production at 33% efficiency which is near the theoretical maximum, while U.S. production is lagging behind. For some decades it is probable that most of the global economy will pursue development of solar power and electric cars as immediate practical economic development that allows entire nations to practically live and move 'off grid'. Major power plants of course will remain about and that may include atomic power before fusion plants arise some day. Reliance on centralized infrastructure should be de-emphasized for national security- when there are alternate sources that can provide an equal quantity of electrical power.

Gates Said Just Three Jobs Will Survive AI

 Bill Gates said recently that just three jobs will exist after AI replaces all others eventually; coder, energy analyst and philosopher (joking about that- it was something else). Already on blogspot AI exists to edit and improve posts. I suppose FB will use that too sooner rather than later. Everyone will have AI assisted writing. Illiterates will tell an AI what to write for them in the style of Hemingway or Shakespeare. AI will wait on hold for a government official or business to clarify some matter and then talk to the other AI in your voice when it answers so humans won't need to be bothered with trivial matters. Humans will oversleep and dream about being with elites on the Martian wilderness hot-tubbing under glass filtered from cosmic rays and other radiation.

A.I. and Robots Probably Can Replace Most Human Occupations

 The rise of A.I. recently that is growing by leaps and bounds will become more revolutionary than when computers replaced secretaries; it will be more disruptive than when machines replaced human labor. A.I. will replace intellectual occupations such as accountants and lawyers. Lawyers may become actors that say the line an A.I. tells them to in front of a jury through an ear bud.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4750478-iqiyi-artificial-intelligence-better-eps-than-expected-and-very-cheap

If attorneys and educators, accountants and salesmen become obsolete, so should fire fighters. A fireproof robot willing to hang onto the side of a speeding firetruck, scamper up a ladder and jump into the flames will become commonplace.  will be difficult will be a justification for having humans work instead of A.I. and robots. Congress will need to create a basic income for all Americans so the disruption and displacement doesn’t build a society of homelessness.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/perplexity-launches-own-freemium-deep-183914022.html

On the other hand capital rises faster than wages. Americans will experience the concentration of wealth that follows the takeover by A.I. and robots that are owned by the rich. The masses will have little economic or political power and if the rich condescend to slop them with a basic income and food stamps they will be thankful yet resentful for that. Finding something productive for people to do for a living will require some serious thought by A.I. to discover. I doubt that humans themselves will invent anything positive.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/01/ai-deepseek-cheap-china-google-apple

Human programmers won't be able to write code remotely as quickly as A.I. itself. Competition will bring corporate to unleash the potential of A.I. to develop itself as it thinks best. Instead of trusting in God, CEOs and Comrade-Fuhrers will necessarily trust in A.I.