>>>I agree with the article that it'a huge political problem, but at the same time, the article makes it sound like the technical problems are minimal. Maybe even all but solved. I think that's a very long way from the truth. We have no good way to store anything at all for over 20,000 years, never mind something as potentially dangerous as radioactive waste.
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>>>Complete destruction of the material is the only way, and nobody has that little problem quite figured out yet.
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>>That's an easy one - nuke it!<g>
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>But if they did that, I suppose once a year say on July 4th in the U.S. and in Canada on July 1st, all the fireworks companies would be put out of business and the welfare rolls would swell again. You have to start looking at the big picture, John.

Geez Wally, I guess I never thought of that!(in his best Jerry Mathers impersonation)