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asdff on March 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric...

Modern reactors produce very little waste. It's a non issue, the technology is here and we can build them today, it just takes decades to recoup investment and no shareholder will consent to margins that slim.

masklinn on March 20, 2019 [–]

> Modern reactors produce very little waste.

Sadly that has very little impact in the face of the US's epidemic NIMBY-ism. Yucca is dead, and the US is completely opposed to reprocessing.

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