Hi EN:   Sorry for delay in reply.  Re:   "... then you should have said as much ..."   Pretty sure that I did.  ;-)  Please re-read my entries carefully.

"... Your geologist who was a partisan for Yucca ..."   He was a trained and experienced government scientist with impeccable credentials.  You are perilously close to calling him a fraud and a liar, here.  Tsk.  Would you say such things if he were a government *climate* researcher??  

"... Gerry Szymanski ... found evidence of hot water upwelling and filling fault fractures well above the storage area ..."  Szymanski made certain observations and interpretations, put a hypothesis out there for review - and had it almost universally shot down as untenable by his scientific peers.  *That's how science works.*    Your reference is only a NY Times puff-piece comprising a romanticized personality profile and thinly-veiled anti-Yucca editorial.  It is not a scientific document (and can't hold a candle to real science ...