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First, yes I agree that nuclear waste is an important issue that should be getting more attention than it does. However, this should not be thought of as a 10,

First, yes I agree that nuclear waste is an important issue that should be getting more attention than it does. However, this should not be thought of as a 10,000 or more year problem. Think back on the incredible expansion of knowledge in the last 100 years. Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste? This is a one or two hundred year problem at most. Can we not safely store two or three warehouses of material for 100 years? Thinking of this as a ten or fifty thousand year problem expresses a tremendous pessimism in the human ability to innovate.

dahdum 5y ago
> Thinking of this as a ten or fifty thousand year problem expresses a tremendous pessimism in the human ability to innovate. It’s quite fatalistic. The arguments are usually about protecting some future Stone Age human society from it. Seems like the assumption is civilization will crumble and human intelligence will decline so much that they wouldn’t be able to figure out or notice that some ancient waste they dug up is killing them.
JohnHaugeland 5y ago
> Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste? We've been safely reprocessing this waste since the 1960s.
tuwtuwtuwtuw 5y ago
> Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste? I have no idea. People were supposed to transport themselves to work by the use of flying cars today. If you think that you can predict the future then please wait a minute while I laugh.