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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does France or other nuclear heavy countries do with their nuclear waste?[/quote]

France's reactor design, Areva, reuses the waste so that it has less radiation when they store the spent fuel.

It's not clear to me why we cant use dry casks to store spent fuel until it has decayed enough to move. We have trash pits, etc so the idea of storing waste isnt new. We have never, ever, in the history of the world, had any deaths related to nuclear waste. Yet here we are, planning more coal and oil consumption out of "safety" concerns.  [/quote]

Its ironic that nuclear power releases less radiation into the environment than any other energy source. The worst offender is coal:

[quote]Burning coal gasifies its organic materials, concentrating its mineral components into the remaining waste, called fly ash. So much coal is burned in the world and so much fly ash produced that coal is actually the major source of radioactive releases into the environment. [/quote]

[url]https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nuclear-power-must-be-part-of-the-energy-solution-environmentalists-climate[/url][/quote]

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