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[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de -3 points 4 months ago

The US produces less than half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool of nuclear waste per year in total, so it's not exactly hard to manage.

Storing and monitoring that waste for 100'000 years is too expensive, even if we manage to do it.

Nuclear power is simply not cost-effective.

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