Letters to the Editor
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What do we do with the waste?
This stuff is lethally toxic for hundreds of thousands of years. We have to find a place to put it to store it safely for all that time. We haven't found a place yet.
I am skeptical of creating more of this incredibly hazardous waste when we haven't dealt with disposing of what we have already created.
Yes, we have storage containers that can probably safely transport the waste. But transport it to where? How can we guarantee the safety of this waste for that long?
I guess if we could find a way to drop it into a subduction zone that would move it under the earth's crust that would work. But we need to do that first. Let's not assume we will fix it at some unknown time in the future.
The oldest manmade structures on the planet have only been around for a tiny fraction of the amount of time needed until this stuff is safe.