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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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