How long until nuclear waste becomes unmanageable? Follow up

Question

So a previous post asked how long nuclear material would last (longer than humans)

But how long until we run out of space for the waste? Or if all power was generated through nuclear fission how much wasted would be generated compared to all existing waste?

And if this is all manageable, is there a reason we aren’t going exclusively to nuclear power?

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Answer 1

> And if this is all manageable,

It is

> is there a reason we aren’t going exclusively to nuclear power?

Running nuclear power plants safely turns out to be very expensive because they need to reduce the probability of many kinds of failure to *zero*, and getting those last bits of safety costs.

Solar and wind are waaaaay the hell cheaper than nuke plants, and soon if not now a combination of solar, wind, and batteries will be the cheapest way to manage electricity.