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Originally Posted by milomilo
Yep, just bury the nuclear waste. No problem doing that whatsoever. It came out the ground after all, and we already pump plenty toxic liquid waste underground as well - solid nuclear waste should present a lower risk.
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So nuclear waste is low risk? Why not just store it in your basement then?
Seriously, it typically has a half-life in the thousands of years, yet nobody knows how long the existing storage facilities will be functional (because we've only been storing the stuff for less than a century).
IMHO, this is another case where our ability to create technology has grown more quickly than our ability to mitigate the potential damage caused by it.