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Re:China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from... by jandrese on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:09AM (#46020932)
Radioactive waste is decidedly nasty stuff, but the total volume of it is tiny. There are plenty of chemicals that are just as nasty that were simply buried in the ground in much larger quantities over the years with nary a peep from the population. Nuclear waste is a political problem not a technological one.

The crazy part is that people want to insist that the sites need to be absolutely safe even if they aren't maintained for 1,000 years, but by that point the radioactivity would be no more than the base ore anyway so demanding these extended timelines doesn't make anybody safer. They're just red tape.

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Re:China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from... by hvb2 on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:01AM (#46021910)
It's a political problem, maybe.

It's peculiar that it's a political problem in pretty much every country though? I know Finland is well on its way for long term storage but that's the only example I know of.

There's also quite a few cases where it is a technical problem. Gorleben in Germany for example.

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Re:China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:51PM (#46026707)
> peculiar that it's a political problem in pretty much every country

It's a political problem in every country that shares its nuclear heritage from the ashes of WWII.

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