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It has specific political requirements that are not easy to satisfy in many parts of the world. We can do it technically, it's just that no one is happy about h

• nfoz 12y ago
  > We can do it technically My understanding is that this is a difficult technical challenge and an active area of research. It is difficult to predict which geological structures on Earth will be stable and inaccessible by life forms or geologic volatility on timescales > 10,000 years. I'm not an expert in this area, just that we spent considerable time discussing the challenges in some earth science courses I took, but that was several years ago. So if you have some good review sources to suggest, that would be helpful. My starting point is merely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Long_term_management_of_waste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Long_term_ma...