Eli5: What is so bad about the waste of nuclear power plants? Why are many governments so against it? What is so hard about storing the waste in a safe place?
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Old reactors worked this way, definitely – they made spent fuel that is hard to safely store.
Modern reactors don’t. Heck, some modern reactors can use old-school spent fuel as secondary fissile (fuel) material! And then the waste they produce is pretty inert (harmless).
In short, nuclear science had come a long way, and modern reactor waste is not remotely as dangerous as old-school spent fuel.
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