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Well said. We also need to remember that all of these are 50 to 100 year problems rather than thousand year problems simply because there is no reason to expec
by dev_tty01 6y ago
Well said. We also need to remember that all of these are 50 to 100 year problems rather than thousand year problems simply because there is no reason to expect that we won't come up with ways to reprocess that fuel within 50 to 100 years. Just consider how our knowledge of these processes has changed over the last 100 years. Do we have so little confidence in our ability to innovate that we really think we will have to deal with this stuff for a few thousand years? So, this is likely a problem of a few decades for the reasons given above and because we will get better at this stuff.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoThis is assuming that our level of technology keeps advancing. Given the level of political instability in our world I would take that far from granted.
- Paradigma11 6y agoThen we would have far bigger problems than nuclear waste.
- blargmaster33 6y agoWe already know how to reprocess it using breeder reactors. The problem is that we reprocess them into the stuff you make nuclear weapons out of.