[throwaway_20357]

Why would it need to be safe for "hundreds of thousands of years" in the first place? Do we not think we would find some other use of nuclear waste within the next decades/centuries, and if not, just send it to space?

[crote]

> if not, just send it to space

So what do you think is going to happen when (not "if") one of those rockets has a malfunction and blows up?

[croes]

Terrorists already have a use case