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Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change by Retric on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:03PM (#19720008)
Not sure why that was downvoted, it’s easy to demonstrate with even minimal research.

From a pro nuclear website: 97% of the waste produced is classified as low- or intermediate-level waste (LLW or ILW). Such waste has been widely disposed of in near-surface repositories for many years. In France, where fuel is reprocessed, just 0.2% of all radioactive waste by volume is classified as high-level waste (HLW) http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...

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Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change by adrianN on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:35PM (#19720318)
The claim is that the most expensive part is storing the waste for 10000 years. All LLW and ILW doesn't have to be stored that long.
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Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change by Retric on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:40PM (#19721546)
ILW and HLW are generally assumed to both be stored in the same areas long term. Which means they are about as expensive to deal with long term.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste...

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