Why can’t we dump nuclear waste in the same place we mine nuclear fuel?

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Why can’t we dump nuclear waste in the same place we mine nuclear fuel?

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We could and nature kind of did.

In Oklo nature was running its very own fission reactor for many, many years with the natural uranium in situ, so the uranium was turned into waste without ever being moved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

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