Originally Posted by Paul Markham

The liberals might prefer shipping it off to a 3rd world country.

If you generate this waste you have to have the facilities to store it for 10,000s of years after it's decommissioned. Can you imagine how much we will generate in a 100 years considering a typical nuclear power plant in a year generates 20 metric tons of used nuclear fuel. The nuclear industry generates a total of about 2,000 - 2,300 metric tons of used fuel per year.

For those who can't do the maths that 200,000 - 230,000 metric tons of nuclear waste. Over only 100 years.