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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
4. We have decided that our children and their offspring will take care of the poison leftover for 25000 years. That's more than the age of civilization. A human being is notable for slipups and breaches in concentration.
Go solar!
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Now seeing as you've pointed out how long the stuff lasts I feel the need to point out that as a civilization we have the resources to reprocess the spent fuel rods to make more of them, I believe the current figures put it at more than 50% of it is reprocessed and reusable, so that cuts a lot of the waste down. As for the remainder the whole idea of burying it under a mountain in specially designed containers sounds fine to me provided that proper care is provided for them.
Back on topic the idea of electric cars as battery technology as it exists today is a bad one, from an environmental standpoint, because the actual production of batteries has a massive environmental impact compounded by the fact people will need replacement batteries for their cars every few years.