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Only if we never use fast reactors, which fission almost all the long-lived stuff. Take what's left, encase it in glass and bury it, and it'll be back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years.


Well, except for the 7 long lived fission products. Those are possibly good targets for space disposal.


You can separate them out and transmute them in fast reactors as well.

https://www.iaea.org/publications/7112/implications-of-parti...


I suspect space disposal would be much cheaper.


Sure, the overall mix goes back to the radioactivity of the original ore, not a radioactivity of zero.




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