[BJungNan]

This is not a problem which is going away any time soon.

Seems to me we should not be making it a bigger problem. Sounds like it is time to stop making waste until we can clean up what is built up.

[Looking for Diogenes]

That is logical, but not possible. This waste repository was scheduled to be open decades ago, which is why the waste has piled up so much. But stopping the production of waste would mean stopping the nuclear reactors, which produce a large portion of our electricity.

In some respects, it is a self-created problem. Some other nations reprocess their fuel, extracting the still useful elements, including plutonium, for further reactions. This reduces the waste stream. The opposition to re-processing stems from the fact that, if adopted by the rest of the world, it would be easier for nations to get ahold of plutonium, a useful component of atomic bombs.