New Cost Estimates

The cost of the program has been reviewed. The cost of each individual cannon round is now estimated to be about $20,000 each. This put the total cost of moving all 1,000,000 tons of nuclear waste off the earth closer to $100 billion. But at the same time the Government has recently re-estimated the potential cost of Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository as being closer to $92 billion; but that only includes a little more than a 100,000 metric tons of metallic wastes. So the Nuclear Waste Cannon is becoming the best alternative to what to do with the rapidly accumulating pile of hazardous nuclear waste material.