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by 08-15 2213 days ago
No infrastructure or crew is required to "protect" the "infrastructure" around a glass log on the ocean floor for the ~500 years it takes it to become as radioactive as natural uranium ore.

Why don't we discuss this easy disposal option seriously? Why do we instead ask seriously about launching it into the sun instead?

Because nuclear waste has been politicized to such an extent that most people have no idea what it is composed of, what the halflifes of its constituents are, how radioactive it is, how chemically reactive it is or even what state of matter it is in. But everyone knows that, like, it is, like, totally dangerous!