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What are current feasible, sustainable solutions to long-term nuclear waste storage? Any pointers?

• throw0101c 4y ago
  > What are current feasible, sustainable solutions to long-term nuclear waste storage? Any pointers? Bury it in geologically stable areas. At some point: it will cool down on its own, or technology will be developed to re-use it in an economically-amiable fashion and we can bring it back up. We know how to re-process it [1] but no body really wants to pay for that. As it stands: before we start worrying about what happens to nuclear "waste" 500+ years in the future, we have to get through the next 100 years and all the issues that climate change is causing right now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
• _cenw 4y ago
  All I know is that I'm more comfortable burying some extra waste next to the stuff we already have to bury somewhere (like Onkalo) than burn more fossil fuels. Trading long term for short term isn't the best, but I don't really see anything else getting us off a track to further global ecological devastation you couldn't cause with nuclear waste even if you were trying.