Nuclear rods location unclear

Pacific Gas and Electric provides us a good reason to support Yucca Mountain as a permanent disposal site for nuclear material--rather and storing it at locations scattered around the country as is done today:

After a seven-month search, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Wednesday that no one is completely sure what happened to three missing fuel rods at the old Humboldt Bay Power Plant near Eureka -- but that there is every reason to believe they were right where they were supposed to be all along.

An interim report to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission detailed "reasonable, but not conclusive, evidence" that deteriorated fragments recovered from the bottom of a used-fuel storage pool at the defunct plant in fact were the remains of the missing fuel rods.