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by Manuel_D 1524 days ago
Bury it underground, in bedrock. But there's no sense in doing that until the waste has been reprocessed, since non-reprocessed nuclear waste is a valuable fuel source.
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But, waste is not reprocessed, because it is expensive. As is every single thing about nukes.
Israel, Pakistan, and France reprocess their nuclear waste [1]. And it's not particularly expensive, it's just less expensive than enriching new uranium.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#List_of_s...

I.e., expensive.

US got 15,000 tons of massively subsidized fuel processed from Soviet bombs.