How Does an RBMK Reactor Explode

[ECSNorway]

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.

Meanwhile research on Thorium reactors is stalled because - despite the fact that their waste doesn't require that kind of long-term storage and they're far safer and less likely to have issues than any uranium/plutonium design - nobody will let them build any to test it.