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I'd go so far to say we should just dispose of it all. I used to be all in on reprocessing the waste. Nowadays I only want to do it if it's actually cheaper (wh
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
I'd go so far to say we should just dispose of it all. I used to be all in on reprocessing the waste. Nowadays I only want to do it if it's actually cheaper (which I don't think it will be for many decades). Nuclear has economics issues, not uranium sustainability issues. Uranium from seawater with runoff can power the entire planed 10x over for a few hundred million years. It's borderline renewable. We need to be doing things that make nuclear reactors simpler and cheaper to operate, not more complex and expensive.
Disposing of the waste from a once-through fuel cycle is totally doable. We just have to let the world know that the Finns are doing it at the Onkalo Repository, we can do it in WIPP, and Deep Isolation LLC is working on a pretty slick deep borehole option.