Bozo Erectus
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sysyphus said:Yes it would. The required technology already exists to contain nuclear waste for the enitrety of its life above normal background radiation levels.
Irish Caesar said:Do you realize that the uranium used to generate electrical power in nuclear power plants will undergo the exact same decay chain and produce the exact same elements with the exact same half-lives whether we use it for power and then bury it or leave it buried?
We might as well get as much energy out of the uranium we have before it decays...
IglooDude said:I think it is reasonable to assume there will be a fairly clean and easy solution for nuclear waste storage developed in the next thousand years, don't you?
Nuclear waste is around for hundreds of thousands of years. Theres no way of knowing what will be going on in the world 10,000 years from now. In all likelihood, our high tech civilization will have crashed. Storage places that today are desolate and empty might not be in a few thousand years. Why should babies 10,000 years from now be born with birth defects because some people in a long gone civ cared more about their needs in the present than they did the well being of future generations? If we arent going to care about the well being of our descendants, then what are we doing then? Whats the point of anything?