[SatinDoll]

It is stupid to store nuclear waste. It is the ultimate recyclable.

Bechtel came up with a way to contain hazardous nuclear waste inside steel and concrete casks. These casks can be lowered into a deep ocean trench (subduction trench) within our territorial waters (yes! They exist off of Alaska) and recycled under our continent’s plate. The pressure would eventually smash it to molecule thinness and it wouldn’t make it topside for over a million years.

That is the only solution.

[Waco]

Put a cask beneath a statute on the court house lawn in each county with a statue and you got it solved. When we have the rockets suitable for the mission send it into deep space or the sun or simular star.

[Paleo Conservative]

(yes! They exist off of Alaska)

California is even closer, and it would be easier to keep an eye on.

[JDinAustin]

While from a geological point of view this sounds solid one has to realize that waste is equal to fuel. Throwing away all that fissionable material is ludicrous. With reprocessing 98% of the waste is reusable as MOX fuels extending the life of the uranium fuel cycle from 35 years into the tens of thousands if not billions when one considers that thorium is fissile in a fast neutron reactor. Add in the fact that the Japanese have succeeded on a small scale extracting U235/238 from seawater and the supply of energy from nuclear exceeds all other sources by 2+ orders of magnitude. One source has computer the cost of recoverable uranium in seawater to be economic at any spot price over $50 lb uranium dioxide. fuel cost is less than 2% of total cost for a nuclear reactor anyways. fueling rates could go up 10 times and the cost per kwhr would barely change. At Ten times the current cost for Uranium dioxide seawater extraction as well as phosphate extraction is not only economical but extremely profitable too. both these sources have enough UO2 for tens of thousands of years of use.

http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm

http://npc.sarov.ru/english/digest/132004/appendix8.html