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mindlessgames t1_j5svplp wrote

It's not actually that bad to store it and it's really bad if a rocket full of radioactive fuel fails in flight.

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S1Bills t1_j5t22cn wrote

This is 100% the answer. In addition, the waste issue (for commercial plants) is manageable from an engineering perspective, the politics are the problem.

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old-wise_bill t1_j5t24kg wrote

Yeah my understanding is that by the time it's removed from the plant's holding storage it is pretty well decayed. Also spent nuclear fuel and a nuclear bomb ARE NOT the same thing.

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