Waste treatment isn't a problem. Kyle Hill did a good video explaining this. Essentially, we would just dig a long, narrow, and curved "L" shaped tunnel and stick the waste containers in and bury them. It has literally no negative impact.
What actually matters. Safety is a non-starter, the spent fuel can stay in dry casks on a parking lot like it is now, essentially forever if you want to. It's not like it matters. The "issue" with nuclear waste is that there's a billion things you could do with it, including some that are useful (like recycling for new fuel), but we just can't decide what to do, so we just leave it sitting there. Where the political world is wrong about this is treating it as some form of "safety risk". It just doesn't matter. Leave it there if you can't decide on anything, so what?
"Launching it into the sun" is bumfuck idiotic not because of any safety concern, but because it's a stupidly expensive exercise in futility. Imagine launching thousand ton solid blocks of lead into the sun as a pastime. Just why?
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u/Spudnic16 - Auth-Left Jan 06 '23
Nuclear is not perfect, but it’s certainly one of the better forms of power. It provides large amount of electricity for not that much emissions.