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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:01AM (#23474399)
> Basically we just bury it and hope for the best, it will be someone else's problem anyway.

It's rather more involved than that. The short version is that we find a place where the rock has remained undisturbed for more than a billion years, and bury them deep enough that they should remain undisturbed for the next billion years.

Then it's no-one's problem.

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by winrid on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:00AM (#23474942)
The idea that we can build something that will last a billion years is mind boggling, and I'll admit I have my doubts.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Internationa...

They don't seem to define "specific conditions" in this article.

Also, tried to get a non-amp link and failed...

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by manfredo on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:50AM (#23478444)
It doesn't need to last a billion years. Within 10-50 thousand years the uranium is no more radioactive that uranium that was never used in fuel. Sure, uranium is still a toxic heavy metal. But you do understand where this uranium came from before it was used as fuel?
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by winrid on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:47PM (#23481895)
Good clarification, thanks!
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by 1_player on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:33AM (#23475356)
A recent article about Finland's long term nuclear waste storage: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-100-000-year-tomb-for-finland...
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