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Bury it underground, in bedrock. But there's no sense in doing that until the waste has been reprocessed, since non-reprocessed nuclear waste is a valuable fuel
by Manuel_D 5y ago
Bury it underground, in bedrock. But there's no sense in doing that until the waste has been reprocessed, since non-reprocessed nuclear waste is a valuable fuel source.
- ncmncm 5y agoBut, waste is not reprocessed, because it is expensive. As is every single thing about nukes.
- Manuel_D 5y agoIsrael, Pakistan, and France reprocess their nuclear waste [1]. And it's not particularly expensive, it's just less expensive than enriching new uranium. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#List_of_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#List_of_s...
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- ncmncm 5y agoI.e., expensive. US got 15,000 tons of massively subsidized fuel processed from Soviet bombs.