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A bit of googling shows there are about 1,000 abandoned uranium mining/prospecting sites in New Mexico. Probably many with uncontained tailings. Yikes. But we can count on extraction projects to clean up after themselves now. Right?

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Of course! And they'll also maintain the tailings dam for the thousands of years required.

Why would we even doubt that?

Do you really think the situation in Russia is better?

No. It is very likely worse. Same for other places with less regulation than the US.

So, it'd be preferable to move it to the US where it can have better oversight and there's a potential of regulatory-driven change.

You're pretending option C "don't give the nuclear scammers more public money" doesn't exist.

No, actually.

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