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@clacke @pezmico Nuclear waste doesn't need to be in gas-tight storage for ten million years; one thousand is excessive. Sequestration is the harder problem.

Amazing how people are far more scared of spent reactor fuel than coal ash, isn't it? And how the "more radioactive" part of the coal ash has no cultural knowledge traction whatsoever.

Fossil carbon companies have spent money like water for generations to create very specific fears of anything that might alter the status quo.