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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure where they got those numbers.

All nuclear waste produced to date isn't 500-1500 cubic meters.

As to storage. Just bury it again. We dug it up, we can bury it. There are a few places that are currently doing just that.

Or, here a wild idea. Just burn the waste. It's something like 90% unburned fuel, just reprocess it and burn it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Just burn the waste

Wouldn't that like... eradiate our whole fucking atmosphere? O.o

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The source for that number is the International Atomic Energy Agency aka the nuclear control agency. As for the rest of your ideas, its sadly not that easy. It has to be stored somewhere where it cant contaminate the environment, water cant get to it, tectonics are stable, etc. No permanent storage location for the waste has been found, to date.

And to burn the unburned fuel you would have to breed the material, which is a process that requires the most dangerous reactors and is extremely costly.