[fgpwd]

As far as I understand, the reactors there are still active. The reactors nuclear waste is not like regular cargo, you cant just pick it up on a crane and move it a 100 meter away let alone another continent. They are having difficulties making a robot that can study the reactor because it's so radioactive. A person would die in less than a minute near that reactor.

Maybe they should dig deep into the earth and then let it merge with the earth's nuclear core :)

In order to keep the reactors cool, they pump 400 tonnes of water through the reactors everyday. This water has to be stored in tanks after that. The radiation seems to be never ending and they will run out of the space to store this water in a couple of years. There is also the radioactive debris around the place that they have to take care of.

We have the science to create energy from nuclear fission, but the science to deal with the aftermaths of a nuclear accident is still a work in progress.

[abalashov]

Maybe they should dig deep into the earth and then let it merge with the earth's nuclear core :)

Problem is it'll merge with the water table first. :-)

[emiliobumachar]

Why can't they run the same water through the reactor again after the water cools?

[nrki]

Because it's highly radioactive.

[gambiting]

So? It's not like it's any worse at cooling because of it. After all, nearly all nuclear reactors use highly irradiated water for cooling in the first cooling loop.

[wheelerwj]

its not highly radioactive, its less radioactive than when it came out.