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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by tacocataco on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:30PM (#29658355)
I'm not worried about new reactor designs failing. I'm more worried about storing and protecting waste that lasts 20,000 years.

Just seems like another opportunity to externalize costs onto future humans to me.

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by asteroidbelt on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:57PM (#29666384)
> storing and protecting waste that lasts 20,000 years

Earth core contains gazilions of spent nuclear fuel. Just burying spent nuclear fuel would not make anything worse.

But it is suboptimal, because spent nuclear fuel can be used in the future reactors.

I don't understand why people repeat this statement about spent fuel again and again why there's no problem.

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