Europe has about 60,000 tons of nuclear waste storage[1], so lets say the global nuclear waste quantity is 2-3x or 120,000 to 180,000 tons. That sounds like a l

Europe has about 60,000 tons of nuclear waste storage[1], so lets say the global nuclear waste quantity is 2-3x or 120,000 to 180,000 tons. That sounds like a lot, however it's less than 2 weeks of coal deliveries to a coal plant (at 1 train of 115 cars each with 116 tons of coal = 13,340 tons delivered per day[2]). To take another approach, the average landfill size is 600 acres[3]. The "eh, just bury it" approach is really not a bad one. Its not even that much stuff to bury [1] https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/ https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/ [2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16651 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16651 [3] https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/04/15/hidden-damage-landfills https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/04/15/hidden-damage-la...