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  • toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzTURKEY POWER
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    20 days ago

    The source for that number is the International Atomic Energy Agency aka the nuclear control agency. As for the rest of your ideas, its sadly not that easy. It has to be stored somewhere where it cant contaminate the environment, water cant get to it, tectonics are stable, etc. No permanent storage location for the waste has been found, to date.

    And to burn the unburned fuel you would have to breed the material, which is a process that requires the most dangerous reactors and is extremely costly.