[sevenzero]

Leakage due to water infiltration. Its about 120.000 barrels stored in "Asse II" that were produced between 1967 and 1978. The contaminated water is reaching ground water which already got positively tested for caesium-137 and plutonium.

[cess11]

2008: https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2008-09-20-year-long...

2024: https://www.neimagazine.com/decommissioning-waste-management...

2026: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/robotic-arms-...

Here's a timeline as PDF: https://www.folkkampanjen.se/pdf_asse.pdf

Pricing in these things into nuclear energy production makes it quite unpalatable compared to simpler engineering, in my opinion.

Who knows what will come of chinese fusion research, perhaps they'll figure it out and change my mind.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260101160855.h...

[Gud]

Nobody is arguing we should store nuclear waste haphazardly in barrels.

[cess11]

Right, nobody is arguing for the negative consequences we've had from nuclear reactors, except perhaps atom bombs, but they happened anyway.

I know of exactly zero leading politicians that I'd entrust with nuclear waste. Can you name some that you find trustworthy enough?

[gambiting]

>>I know of exactly zero leading politicians that I'd entrust with nuclear waste

I know zero politicians I'd trust with deciding where to build wind farms either, it says more about politicians than the type of energy generation. These kinds of things should be decided following comprehensive research on several locations, which you know - is generally how it's done, example given by OP notwithstanding.