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by worik 1046 days ago
> The totality of the nuclear waste produced by France in history can fit in a swimming pool, and most of the space is for the containers

and, alarmingly

> we know places where natural nuclear waste have been stable for extremely long. Stability is not an issue.

Just where can you store several swimming pool's worth of extreme poison for 200,000 years? "natural nuclear waste" is an entirely different thing from the several swiming pools worth of material that people seem to want to make every year. There is nowhere that stable.

You have to erect a signpost that can be read and understood, and believed for 200,000 years. That is an order of magnitude longer than we have had writing. How can that be done?

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> the several swiming pools worth of material that people seem to want to make every year

I said "in the entire history of France", not last year.

> You have to erect a signpost that can be read and understood, and believed for 200,000 years.

You are worried about people in 200,000 years, where our entire society may collapse in a couple decades. Also you completely ignore that we are screwing the climate in such a way that it may take thousands of years to recover.

Nuclear waste is infinitely better than everything we are doing right now.