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Originally Posted by photon
I agree, I don't understand why there isn't a lot more pushing for nuclear power, or at least more reasearch into it to make the waste easier to deal with.
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A few months ago I met an inspector from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna who told me that the way nuclear waste is dealt with is unquestionably safe and effective.
Essentially you lock the waste away in a super thick vault deep in a mountain or underground. The negligible amount of radiation that escapes from the vault is still too far away from any living thing to cause a problem. He had me convinced.