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[tomcam]

Nuclear energy sounds great to me except for the disposal of nuclear waste. I cannot seem to find any convincing references that we can do it safely over the long-term. Can someone help me with that?

[mrfusion → tomcam]

This folk on Reddit had a great response to that. A bit too long to paste here so I’ll leave the link: https://pay.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7v76v4/what_is_s...

[gdubs → tomcam]

In Stewart Brand’s book “Whole Earth Discipline” he says that a person’s entire lifetime worth of nuclear waste would fit in a can of soda.

And from my understanding, that spent fuel can be reused after a certain amount of time.

Yucca Mountain is a good solution if they can ever figure out the local politics.

[moogly → tomcam]

No you're right, it's an unsolved problem right now.