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Originally Posted by Clev
Nuclear waste is nasty, dangerous stuff.
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Dangerous, yes, but nowhere near the "omigawd it's radioactive, we're all gona DIE!" level that people who apparently get their ideas from comic books and monster movies think it is.
And nowhere near as dangerous (per MWatt generated) as the waste from burning coal: the solid stuff causes cancer & respiratory diseases, buries houses (see recent news on the TVA spill) & pollutes rivers; the sulfur & nitrogen oxides cause acid rain; the CO2 may end up destroying human civilization... And there's a hell of a lot more of it to deal with - millions of tons every year, versus maybe a few hundred.