Tribune7 and I differ slightly on the definition of
"tiny bit". See post
134. In an article posted by another on this thread,
Claude Mandil,
the General Director for Energy and Raw Materials at the Ministry of Industry in France, has stated that
"Nuclear waste is an enormously difficult political problem which to date no country has solved. It is, in a sense, the Achilles heel of the nuclear industry." and that
"scientists don't know how to reduce or eliminate the toxicity[of the waste]
, but maybe in 100 years perhaps scientists will". In a few decades we're going to have football fields of this stuff we don't know what to do with (other than we have to maintain its safe storage for the next 500 years -- at what cost to the future taxpayer for maintenance?). I believe the current estimate is the United States today stores a volume of nuclear waste the width and breadth of a football field, ten feet thick ... Deriving electricity via nuclear generation is cheap and easy -- I've conceded that point -- but everything afterwards is risky, expensive, and like a bad renter, just won't go away. It's a problem that shouldn't just swept under the rug, er, buried under a mountain.