I read a lot of comments talking about „getting down the operational costs“ but i am missing someone talking about the costs of depositing the nuclear waste until it has no more risks. Am i missing something?!

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throwawayffffas 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yes the cost of depositing nuclear waste is trivial, it takes a small number of large concrete structures underground in well picked locations.

The US produces about 1250 cubic meters of waste per year. For comparison the empire state building has a floor area of 208000 square meters, assuming a 3 meter floor height you could fit about 500 years worth of spent fuel inside it.

	▲	m101 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. This. Nuclear waste storage is extremely cheap. Also, we only "use" 3% of the fuel in current nuclear power station designs so we could just reprocess the fuel and vastly reduce the volume of waste too.