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		chadgeidel on Dec 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Million Years of Isolation I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that these timescales won't even matter. We will be digging up this "waste" in a few years to recycle it anyway. I guess fissile material is pretty rare.

sketerpot on Dec 4, 2009 [–]

Not that rare, if you use it efficiently and don't do anything ridiculous like throwing away perfectly good nuclear "waste".

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