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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by worik on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @10:03PM (#42571214)
> Vitrification of the waste (mixing it into and storage deep underground provides a safe way to store waste for 1000s of years.

No. It is a way of loosing it and leaving it around for someone to dig it up and become very sick

Remember, it is hundreds of thousands of years

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by zizee on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:19PM (#42579042)
> Remember, it is hundreds of thousands of years

Remember that I have already said I disagree with this as something we should be worried about.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by worik on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:22PM (#42581559)
> I have already said I disagree with this as something we should be worried about.

And I said "making future generations pay for our current consumption"

Surely that is shameful?

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by zizee on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:15AM (#42583667)
We've happily fucked future generations by being scared of nuclear (with the fear campaign funded by fossil fuel companies), and bring about climate change.

That is shameful, and the anti-nuclear crowd can take responsibility for that.

I'd be more concerned about the next 100 years, than pretending we can predict what things we do today will be a positive or negative for 200 years from now, let alone 1000s.

And anyway. If you bury this stuff deep enough, encase it in glass, it's going to take a fairly advanced civilization to get at it. They'll quickly work out the risks involved after playing too much with their newly found treasure. Then they can decide whether to leave it be, or whether it's a boon.