Re:Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Let...
by plikan13 on Friday November 28, 2014 @07:31AM
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Aside from waste storage there's also the cost of dismantling old reactors. The Wikipedia article on nuclear decommissioning makes for some depressing reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning
The tl;dr being "with a few notable exceptions, it's just too damn expensive so we just ignore the problem"