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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by ohyes on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:10PM (#22621828)
Yucca mountain is the wrong solution. We can reprocess nuclear fuel waste easily already, reducing this issue by quite a lot. As a policy issue the United States does not, so you end up with much more “spent fuel” than necessary.

Radioactive byproducts (steel and such) are a bigger issue, but hopefully you only see a lot of that when you are actively decommissioning a plant.

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by bumby on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:19PM (#22621910)
As you alluded to, I think it's the policy/political problems that are more difficult to overcome compared to the technical issues. That's the main reason I was assuming it would be easier to solve the coal ash problem
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