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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by acidburnNSA on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:24AM (#18782040)
Hanford waste is radionuclides dissolved in acid to get pure plutonium out. It leaks. It's from the Cold War nuclear weapons program. [1]

Commercial nuclear waste is solid ceramic Uranium/fission product-oxide. It does not leak.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/hanford.html

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by nickik on Saturday December 29, 2018 @07:03PM (#18786466)
That's a weapons production cite. In most post I tried to separate civilian power waste from that.

If we look at civilian power production in the last 40 years its basically a non issue.

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