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by throw0101c 43 days ago
> Did waste management become a solved problem?

Yes? Just have them sit in concrete casks? It's safe enough to do a 'maternity photoshoot' with:

* https://xcancel.com/MadiHilly/status/1671491294831493120

The volumes of "waste" that is generated, given the electricity produced, is not a lot. The entirety of the US' waste created, over the course of multiple decades, can fit on single football field/pitch, ten yards/metres high (that's the actual fuel bundles: the dry casks they're stored in would increase the volume).

France is just across the border, so Orano can do reprocessing with the "waste" to reduce its volume even further if desired, and extract the unused fuel from the waste.