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Three questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

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For decades, one of the major complaints about nuclear power in the United States has been the argument that, after all this time, we still have not come up with a dependable strategy for sequestering high-level radioactive waste, including spent fue…

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:40:04 UTC.

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