<story><title>Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-nuclear-waste-storage-france/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hairytrog</author><text>Spent nuclear fuel, sometimes called waste, is actually a resource that next generation reactors will be able to tap - both for energy and uncommon element feedstock. Just like shale used to be &amp;quot;garbage&amp;quot; until the tech to make it useful was developed, spent fuel will be seen as waste until we can make it useful. Letting this very manageable amount of waste sit in repositories until we get our shit together is utterly reasonable. In the US, it would take just one facility to deal with all 99 reactor waste streams.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we need to spend money and energy to transmute it by theses questionable laser schemes. Accelerator driven transmutation of waste was shown the dustbin a few decades ago, hopefully this will have the same fate. Please don&amp;#x27;t ruin our valuable trash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erentz</author><text>And no one ever talks about how we’ll handle solar waste. Has it changed and is no longer a problem going forward? Last I looked into it a few years back it was shaping up to be a very serious and toxic problem. They were very difficult to recycle, and full of lead, cadmium, and other nasty things. Something needs to be done with them but everyone was pretending they’re completely clean and safe.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-nuclear-waste-storage-france/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hairytrog</author><text>Spent nuclear fuel, sometimes called waste, is actually a resource that next generation reactors will be able to tap - both for energy and uncommon element feedstock. Just like shale used to be &amp;quot;garbage&amp;quot; until the tech to make it useful was developed, spent fuel will be seen as waste until we can make it useful. Letting this very manageable amount of waste sit in repositories until we get our shit together is utterly reasonable. In the US, it would take just one facility to deal with all 99 reactor waste streams.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we need to spend money and energy to transmute it by theses questionable laser schemes. Accelerator driven transmutation of waste was shown the dustbin a few decades ago, hopefully this will have the same fate. Please don&amp;#x27;t ruin our valuable trash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>&amp;gt; Spent nuclear fuel, sometimes called waste, is actually a resource that next generation reactors will be able to tap&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just hope. How convenient not having to deal with the mess! To me, it sounds like a religion.&lt;p&gt;The same argument could be applied to rising CO2 levels. Just let future generations figure it out. What could go wrong?</text></comment>