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by mikevp 2345 days ago
Talking about reactor waste with an image of 55 gallon steel drums with the radiation trefoil on them... Sheer ignorant incompetence.

"Near-infinite" power source from decay of Carbon 14. In some low power applications this would be close enough to eternal as makes no difference, but calling it a "near-infinite" source of power in general is pretty wildly exaggerated.