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by VHRanger 1160 days ago
Easily, yes. It's easy and safe to dispose of, and doesn't take much space at all.

Disposing nuclear waste effectively means putting it under ~3m of water in a place where people won't mess with it.

As of 2016, France has produced 14,000 tons of nuclear waste *in its entire history*. That's about 7 normal olympic swimming pools in total volume.

We have much bigger issues with other forms of waste, nuclear waste has always just been a scaremongering tactic for the anti-nuclear crowd.

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Nuclear waste is also the issue the nuclear stans like to bring up, to propagate the falsehood that it is the issue that's holding back nuclear (so they can then correctly argue that it's not that big a problem, so incorrectly claim building more nuclear is a good idea.)