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How do you route the power from Antarctica to where it needs to be? That'd be an impractically large expense.

• db48x 10y ago
  You can put the waste there without putting the power plants there.
  • JadeNB 10y ago
    But now you have the problem of transporting large quantities of nuclear waste for long time periods, with little tolerance for delays or stoppages.
    • CamperBob2 10y ago
      At some point you have to accept that all energy sources have drawbacks. Besides not making a whole lot of sense, this particular objection is pretty small potatoes compared to toxic fogs that kill people by the thousands, or other fossil fuels that appear to be altering the climate on a planetary scale.
    • db48x 10y ago
      No, the existing storage pools at nuclear reactors provide a long-term buffer that can smooth out any irregularities in shipping. After all, there already is such an irregularity. Once you start shipping the waste again, it's not really all that difficult. It's transported in containers which are essentially indestructible.