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> can and should be recycled

Well, it's not, and there doesn't seem to be much focus by the DoE to do so. Therefore storage of waste is still a major problem if you want to generate electricity with nuclear power plants in the US.



The limiting factor is politics not technology.

The politics around nuclear waste are preventing the construction of reactor designs which exist today which could take waste that exists today and use it with an output with a much more manageable half-life than the waste we have just sitting around right now.


> The limiting factor is politics not technology.

Right... The only technical problem, how to store waste indefinitely, is only a problem because there's a larger political problem that prevents the waste from being recycled/reused. Since the political problem is highly unlikely to be resolved within a few decades, that leaves us with the technical problem of how to deal with the waste as we are currently generating/storing it.


There is already a place to store it in Finland that is going active soon.

The is a great place that has been identified, tested and evaluated in the US. Most experts agree that it is a site that would work perfectly fine.

But guess what, its insane political battles that stopped this from being used and that is still the case.

Even so, without a end solution, there is no problem with storing it in a different place for a couple 100 years as it has a tiny volume.


The amounts of hi-level waste generated are manageable and no one is claiming we are in danger of imminently running out of space. Long before this becomes a problem we will either recycle the waste or use most of this "waste" to generate electricity. While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry some people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least.




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