Why can’t we dump nuclear waste in the same place we mine nuclear fuel?
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As others have said you don’t find uranium ore in huge chunks and even those are not highly radioactive. Once the the highly concentrated/enriched uranium has been used in a reactor it becomes highly radioactive and cannot be simply put back into a mine or pit. That’s also just the uranium, a lot of the other parts of the reactor are now contaminated and must be stored properly.
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