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I agree, and even without nuclear disasters, no human society has ever lasted for as long as nuclear waste must be looked after.

• fleitz 16y ago
  Nuclear waste is a US only issue. It doesn't exist in any other country. Buy some CANDU reactors from Canada and you can burn your nuclear waste for energy.
  • schrototo 16y ago
    You can't be serious... nuclear waste is a huge issue in pretty much every country that has nuclear power plants. Half of Germany goes insane every time there is a transport of nuclear waste from one temporary storage location to another.
    • patrickyeon 16y ago
      The parent comment to yours is serious. CANDU reactors can run off fuel that is considered 'waste' from light water reactors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles
      • kiujhgtfghjk 16y ago
        Every other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel. The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and if we need to make more nukes to fight the commies we will be glad we didn't reprocess it all.
        • patrickyeon 16y ago
          CANDU doesn't chemically re-process it (no purification). It just physically breaks it up into fuel rods that it can use. A CANDU reactor can run on unprocessed, raw (just-pulled-it-out-of-the-ground) uranium, which light water reactors cannot do without chemical reprocessing.