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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by acidburnNSA on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:46PM (#38272725)
Outside the US, Finland's Onkalo repository is on track to be the first operational commercial repository [1]. We have some operating military ones, like WIPP already.

[1] https://www.posiva.fi/en/index.html

As for transportation, this has been a big concern for some time but has pretty rock-solid technical solutions [2]. We regularly ship high-level nuclear waste around (e.g. from nuclear submarines to Hanford) and haven't really had any incidents. I'd claim that the issue is basically solved with these robust containers.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?vW=hlextDSoVkQ

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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by eru on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:53AM (#38273736)
For comparison, we have chemicals like mercury (and much worse) that stay dangerous forever, and we mostly handle them just fine.

There's only a tiny amount of high level nuclear waste.

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