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Two hamsters on a treadmill could outperfom nuclear power 8-/

Nuclear is the biggest boondogle in electric generation history. And a huge fraction of that bloated cost is still hidden in externalities, as the overwhelming majority of all spent fuel is still sitting in "temporary" storage onsite with the reactor where it was used.

Geothermal aside, using money to increase grid storage is a vastly better investment than nuclear can ever be.

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The word temporary is only used to placate people who don't understand nuclear / nuclear waste (waste is a bad term) and who have been badly influenced by 70 years of misinformation from The Sierra Club and others.

None of this spent fuel is really that spent, has plenty of other use cases, and should be used. Also, storing it in concrete casks for 40 years is perfectly safe and has caused 0 harm.

The cost is largely due to regulatory hurdles that are slowly being eroded.

It's also minuscule. A US person would generate roughly a chicken egg worth of waste across their entire lifetime.

It has so many other uses that is has been sitting without uses for 40 years.

The problem is that you need to keep it for thousands of years before it becomes tractable to more easily deal with it.

That's untrue.

Please explain how so.

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