Nuclear waste is scary. What do you do with something that can give you cancer or potentially kill you even when it’s in the next room? For a long while, the status quo has been to advocate putting all our radioactive waste in a pit where it can’t hurt anybody for the next 10,000 years.
Considering firstly that even the longest-lived civilization ever to grace the earth only lasted 1,500 years (and that’s being generous), and secondly that 10,000 years isn’t nearly long enough of a storage period to make nuclear waste safe, if we are to keep...read on.
