[breischl]

There are recycling pilot projects out there, but yeah it's a problem.

Do you also wonder how we'll get rid of used coal power plants, massive piles of toxic fly ash, and tons of pollutants from natural gas plants? Because so far the answer is not good.

[kvgr]

I know how we can get rid of nuclear fuel. Coal is very very dirty... nobody challenges that

[stavros]

Nobody challenges it, but when someone says "I wonder how we'll get rid of the byproducts of solar", it obviously frames the discussion differently than "I wonder how much less impact the byproducts of solar have on the environment than those of coal".

[spywaregorilla]

How can we get rid of spent nuclear fuel

[opwieurposiu]

Burn it in a fast reactor

[marcosdumay]

How do we get rid of a fast reactor's spent parts?

(Yeah, it should be possible to design a reactor so it consumes more long-lived waste than it creates. But I don't think anybody ever bothered to do that.)

[15155]

Fly ash is a key ingredient in Portland cement.