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Rumpullpus t1_iu7sb9r wrote

Reply to comment by fredo3579 in Poland picks U.S. offer for its first nuclear power plant -PM by SunfireGaren

Well not exactly. It is an issue, but it's purely a political one. No one wants a waste site in their state.

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fredo3579 t1_iu80wb5 wrote

We don't actually need (almost) any waste sites. We have the technology to transform and reuse a large amount of the "waste" as fuel in breeder reactors, or bombard it in particle accelerators to turn it into much less problematic elements. Lastly, we have been storing the waste onsite for decades already, there is no reason we couldn't do it for "eternity".

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