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This has been solved on a theoretical level for a long time. All it needs is financing and political will to build the storage facilities. Despite a long-stand
by jcfrei 7y ago
This has been solved on a theoretical level for a long time. All it needs is financing and political will to build the storage facilities.
Despite a long-standing agreement among many experts that geological disposal can be safe, technologically feasible and environmentally sound, a large part of the general public in many countries remains skeptical. from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Principles_and_background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Pri...
- mikepurvis 7y agoRight, but it currently has neither, so the problem is for all practical purposes still unsolved. In fact, not only are the dozens of needed DGRs not being built, in many cases fuel which has cooled enough to be moved into cask storage is instead still sitting in actively cooled pools. So not only have we not built any large DGRs (other than that under construction one in Finland), we haven't even taken the intermediate step of preparing spent fuel for any form of passive storage.