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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by chimeracoder on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:00PM (#41368981)
> The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down.

These are all issues for fossil fuel extraction as well, and I have bad news for you about how this problem is currently handled.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by foxyv on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:07PM (#41369069)
In my opinion, the biggest problem with fossil fuel extraction is that it is slowly destroying our biosphere.
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by lokar on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:15PM (#41370865)
Exactly. Tons of abandoned oil wells left for the taxpayers to clean up. But of course we can’t demand that all new wells post bonds for the cleanup costs in advance, that would make them unprofitable.
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