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> Disposing radioactive waste isn't impossible, it's just not trivial

Source? To my knowledge, all radioactive waste disposal systems we have tried to this day have profoundly failed... and some even have failed years before they were scheduled to store any nuclear waste (eg. deadly gallery collapse in Bure, France).

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Most radioactive waste disposal schemes I've heard of have been shelved because of NIMBYism. But it hasn't even been an issue, because most radioactive waste is so benign that just leaving it in storage containers on-site is fine anyway.

There are today 0 long term waste facilities in the world, so none have failed obviously. There are a lot of (non-military) medium term waste facilities (since that is all we need right now) and none of them have experienced any radiation leak.

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