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by jpgvm 1423 days ago
Even if it was a million years it wouldn't matter. The US has the Nevada desert which is effectively a barren wasteland, just shove it in a bunch of containers and leave it there. They already do that for removed nuclear reactors from military vessels (which is actually so it can be seen in satellite imagery to fulfill international treaty requirements.
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> Even if it was a million years it wouldn't matter.

This take is absurd. Humanity barely exists for a few thousand years and you somehow assume that it's feasible and economically justifiable to create a health and security hazard that will exist until the end of times.

And all for what? Because you want to shave off a few cents from an energy bill?

if we solve the clean energy problem, and energy becomes abundant, then that all becomes very usable land.
And if we don't we all die. Seems like an easy choice to me.