>>>> I’ve been saying for years the waste should be dropped, suitably packaged, to be subducted at the mid-Pacific subduction zone. <<<<
There are any number of potential disposal methods, however France decided to go ahead with nuclear power and to defer on the disposal question by considering its sites to be temporary.
This is probably the way to go.
“This is probably the way to go.”
Except any containment scheme here in the US becomes a political hot potato. Better to tell the teeming masses “we have a safe way to completely get rid of it”.
Now, the sane thing would be to get a new breeder reactor design going so we could a) reprocess 90% of the spent fuel into new fuel and b) start making weapons grade plutonium again. The United States is currently the only nuclear power that can’t produce new nuclear weapons.
Since we have 0bama in power, we’re hosed for a few more years though...