Reply #17: As I was saying they still don't know what to do with the waste, safely

[madokie]

Where and what do you yourself propose to do with the highly radioactive waste. My fingers are sore from typing on this keyboard looking for an answer to that and after all this time I still find no answers. I would really like to hear what your take is on this other than the usual tripe. Let me remind you I do not buy nor listen to bullshit though.
I will be the first to admit that I would love to read that there is a viable way to deal with it and that it is being done. The direct Burning of coal to make electricity is killing us, I understand that, no problem.



http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_waste_storage/nuclear_waste_storage.html

The major problem of nuclear waste is what to do with it. In fact, one of the biggest (and perhaps the single biggest) expenses of the nuclear power industry could eventually be the storage of nuclear waste. Currently there are several ways in which nuclear waste is stored. Most of these methods are temporary. In most cases a viable long-term solution for waste storage has yet to be found. This is because the time period for storage is so incredibly long, on the order of thousands of years.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/apr/14/nuclear.greenpolitics

Firing nuclear waste into the sun, placing it in Antarctic ice sheets so it sinks by its own heat to the bedrock, or putting it under Earth's crust so it is sucked to the molten core. These are three of the 14 options the government's advisers are considering to get rid of the UK's troublesome nuclear waste legacy.
All options are technically possible and many are potentially hazardous - either to current generations or those yet unborn. Most also have political drawbacks and are expensive, around £50bn and counting, yet it is a problem the government has decided it must solve.

Last year it appointed a committee on radioactive waste management to re-examine all possibilities to find a publicly acceptable solution to the nuclear waste problem - something that successive governments have failed to do for 50 years.