That’s an improvement but is still a long time. Also, the only thing that could possibly keep up with the demand is nuclear power generation, and ridding spent nuclear fuel cells is becoming an increasingly expensive too. We supposedly own billions in disposal costs as it is.
Can’t we reprocess spent fuel rods into plutonium with breeder reactors? And modernize our nuclear arsenal at the same time?
I Normally just dump my spent fuel rods in the ditch beside the road.
Trump needs to get Yucca Mountain up and running.
It’s not expensive. We spend a fortune not doing it. Antinuclear is the original lawfare.
All of which disappears when we get a President man enough to rescind the execrable Jimmy Carter's ban on reprocessing "spent" fuel.
Since Harry Reid assumed room temperature a few years ago, has Yucca Mountain the Nuclear waste storage facility been re-opened?