> Try figuring in the cost of maintaining
> and securing a waste site for just a thousand years and see where the
> economics are.
the waste problem is easy enough to solve, just bury it in deep mines
diluted so that after the first half centurary of storage it will be no more
radioactive than nautral uranium. Yes it might hurt some future miners after
a collapse of civilisation but so might the natural uranium ore we dig out
to feed our plants.

If we had a similarlly paranoic approach to the huge ammounts of CO2
conventional power produces, we'd never get anything done at all. I'm not
sure how well the chemical waste from solar cell production is handled but i
bet it doesn't get given the same level of paranioa as nuclear waste.


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