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by kjkjadksj 446 days ago
What problem with the waste? Reactors are working and generating power today for many thousands of americans. Whatever is being done with waste today seems to work well enough to continue reactor operations without any major headlines. Just seems to be a bit of cognitive dissonance here between what is claimed online and what we see today out in the field generating power.
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Current waste takes tens of thousands of years to stop being radioactive. Until then we need to hide it from all living life. In the meantime we continue to create waste.

We are getting better shrinking from thousands to a single thousand.. but we still create waste while we argue where to store the new waste.

It doesn’t scale.