Even better: reprocess the fuel. The linear fuel life time decommissions nuclear fuel as useless while it still has 90-something percent of energy potential left. Having a more cyclical life cycle allows for the spent fuel to be reconstituted into new fuel, and to be used anew. All the waste that does end up being produced is only a fraction of the waste produced in a linear process, and only dangerous on a societal timescale instead of a geological one.
It just needs to be buried deep enough. Problem solved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
Even better: reprocess the fuel. The linear fuel life time decommissions nuclear fuel as useless while it still has 90-something percent of energy potential left. Having a more cyclical life cycle allows for the spent fuel to be reconstituted into new fuel, and to be used anew. All the waste that does end up being produced is only a fraction of the waste produced in a linear process, and only dangerous on a societal timescale instead of a geological one.
The places where that is done don’t have a great track record.
I’m pretty sure France is one of those places and they have an amazing track record.
Start digging then
They often put it in the mine it came from. It was there long before and can stay there long after
It wasn’t in the same form when it came out.
True, but when encased properly, it leaks less radioactivity then when it was in raw ore form.
Good luck trying to convince Uranium mining countries to take it back.
Well, Netherlands has a contract with France for exactly that…