The waste has to be slightly monitored but that's it. The most likely case is that for 100+ years nobody has to do anything to this fuel. You can easily colloc

The waste has to be slightly monitored but that's it. The most likely case is that for 100+ years nobody has to do anything to this fuel. You can easily collocate this with other research operations. Then you don't even have to pay a dedicated secure guard. > You can't just leave the high-level waste there for anyone to steal The lots of places where nuclear waste stands around totally unguarded with maybe a small fence. And yet in reality people don't steal gigantic concrete blocks that need spacial transport. If you are seriously question the argument that digging a huge incredibly complex geological storage is more expensive then a normal storage building then I question your sanity. Your argument seems to boil down to the typical 'what if highly unrealistic terrorist from a holywood movie set show up'. I prefer to live in the real world, rather then Holywood fantasy land where villains with incredibly dumb and unrealistic plans are a weekly event.