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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rallyforthesun ◴[12 Sep 25 20:41 UTC] No.45226520[source]▶
I read a lot of comments talking about „getting down the operational costs“ but i am missing someone talking about the costs of depositing the nuclear waste until it has no more risks. Am i missing something?!
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1. throwawayffffas ◴[12 Sep 25 23:05 UTC] No.45227761[source]▶
Yes the cost of depositing nuclear waste is trivial, it takes a small number of large concrete structures underground in well picked locations.

The US produces about 1250 cubic meters of waste per year. For comparison the empire state building has a floor area of 208000 square meters, assuming a 3 meter floor height you could fit about 500 years worth of spent fuel inside it.

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2. m101 ◴[13 Sep 25 07:50 UTC] No.45230162[source]▶
Yes. This. Nuclear waste storage is extremely cheap.

Also, we only "use" 3% of the fuel in current nuclear power station designs so we could just reprocess the fuel and vastly reduce the volume of waste too.