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Re:Ten Thousand Years by adrianN on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:36AM (#8092003)
I agree with this. The current problem with nuclear waste is mostly political. We don't actually want to bury that stuff to far away, because it's a valuable source of fuel once we have the political will to use it. Current plants extract only a tiny fraction of the usable energy from their fuel.
Re:Ten Thousand Years by mmcconnell1618 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:49PM (#8093593)
I imagine future tech may turn nuclear waste into a treasure chest of energy. We dig up oil today to extract energy and a waste dump would provide highly concentrated, long lasting material to mine. Unsafe for today's tech but highly valuable in years to come.