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Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises

Forgotten but not gone, the waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still at the reactor sites, at least 20 years behind schedule. picked by DerAlt1 7 months ago

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16	PulsisX

7 months ago

Guess we need to make more depleted uranium round.

Edit. I had thought DU was made with leftover nuclear reactor fuel and didn't realize it was a byproduct of enrichment.

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11	Killerbe...

7 months ago

We should open a portal to another dimension and dump it there. The Universal equivalent of sweeping it under the rug :)

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7	letter10

7 months ago

i say we are wasting money with NASA if they don't take a load and shoot it towards nothing each time they enter space.

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6	betterjo...

7 months ago

« letter10:i say we are wasting money with NASA if they don't take a load and shoot it towards nothing each time they enter space.

I thought about that too :) - the thing is, even if we minimize the risk of failed launches and manage the costs and environmental impact, that radioactive stuff is among the heaviest matter on earth.

We should really focus on fusion rather than fission if we want to shoot the spent fuel out of orbit..

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7	letter10

7 months ago

« betterjonx : I thought about that too :) - the thing is, even if we minimize the risk of failed launches and manage the costs and environmental impact, that radioactive stuff is among the heaviest matter on earth.

We should really focus on fusion rather than fission if we want to shoot the spent fuel out of orbit..

yeah...see i am an artist so i will let some smarter guys figure out how to do it. they are going to spend $7billion + to store this crap here...surely the lowest bidder can shoot it to nowhere for that kind of cheese.

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