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You could argue that it's actually our social and legal system which is causing problems, rather than a deficiency of technology.

Not in the sense that people are being irrational, but in the sense that we don't have a good framework for dealing with liabilities -- like nuclear waste -- for extremely long periods of time. We could probably store it pretty well if anybody was motivated in paying the direct and indirect costs of doing so properly.



It's also possible that if those costs were correctly tallied, then nuclear power would not be economically viable (assuming it even is without them).




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