[marshray]

> Safely stored nuclear waste isn't a danger to anybody.

You can not claim that without a credible plan to store it until it's no longer hot, however long that takes.

[drjesusphd]

About 12 years for the isotopes produced by neutron activation in fusion reactors.

[ufmace]

Is it more dangerous than Global Warming, though? If Global Warming is really coming, and really as dangerous as people say, then who gives a damn about some nuclear waste? Build the plants now, we'll have plenty of time to figure out what to do with any waste when we aren't underwater.

[DanBC]

Isn't that what we said about CO2?

[jimmaswell]

WIPP is designed to last over 10000 years.

[CamperBob2]

Put it in Antarctica.