How Does an RBMK Reactor Explode

[Black Aeronaut]

IIRC the world's biggest (and only) long term nuclear waste storage is supposed to be build in some far off corner of the USA in an inhospitable landscape. The people living there love the idea of oh so many federal dollars for keeping an eye on the world's deepest pit. Every community around that would see the nuclear transports roll past? Not so much, which is why that nuclear waste storage facility isn't operational.

Hrm.

Here's a wild thought.

Build the powerplants adjacent to the nuclear waste facility and use the superconductive powerlines to transmit the energy into the various regions.

Of course, that would never happen because why on Earth would you do something so sensible?</s>