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And still no proper way to manage nuclear waste.

Here are some options. Forgive my brevity, but I'm tired of people simply asserting that there's no way of managing nuclear waste.

* Throw it away. Deep-sea subduction zones work nicely for this. Tremendously wasteful, though; that "waste" is valuable fuel.

* Recycle the waste to decrease its volume. This isn't a full solution, but it makes the waste cheaper to store for a while.

* Store the waste for a while, and later we can use it in breeder reactors or fusion/fission hybrids. There's so much useful U-238 in that slightly-used fuel. After this, the waste is pretty much dead.

I'm tired of this toon and particularly of the general political atmosphere on HN (technology will solve all problems! yay!).

If it's so easy to get rid of nuclear waste, why didn't we do it yet?

GP just said. Because getting rid of it would be stupid - the current approach is building long-term storage.

So far, technology has solved all problems. What else is there?

I know! We can vaporize it and spew it into the air, like the coal industry already does with their radioactive waste!

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