Nuclear waste is a complete non-issue. It's trivial to just let it sit around in a corner of the power plant's property for a century or two until somebody nuts up and dumps it down a bore shaft or into the ocean where it belongs.

There's no technical or economic problem here. The problem is completely one of PR, with ignoramuses thinking it's a big deal being the entire problem.

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atoav a day ago | parent | next [-]

So you volunteer to take that material into your garage then? Give me your contacts.

	▲	lupusreal 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's no room in my garage, but I'd have no qualms about it being put in my backyard. Of course the power plant property is better, it doesn't need to get moved far and is easier to keep track of. When enough has piled up to compel somebody to do something about it, it can be dumped into the ocean. I am 100% serious

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potato3732842 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And just to be clear, it would be "a bore shaft", not "many bore shafts". The amount of nuclear waste generated per person per lifetime is so small you could pick it up and carry it. So a single well positioned mine with good geology could literally store all of it the US could generate for centuries.

	▲	atoav 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well price it in then. Storage cost per anum times the time it is needed + the bureaucratic cost to ensure it is there till the end of its lifetime. I know that Germany is seeking a nuclear waste storage site (unsucessfully) for two decades now. So simple.