Why can’t we dump it into a volcano or yeet it into space? Or for that matter, if it’s still radioactive, doesn’t that mean there is still more juice we could squeeze out of it?
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It’s mostly NOT a problem. You could fit all the US nuclear waste ever generated onto a football field and it’d only be stacked 10 yards high ([source](https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel)).
Breeder reactors re-cycle the fuel (not recycle, be re-use). The best approach is to design new reactors that operate on Thorium instead of enriched uranium.
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