Nuclear industry reveals its unsolved problem: waste

The Ecologist
Apr 6, 2016, 7:55 am398 pts
Britain is shipping 700kg of highly-enriched uranium capable of making scores of nuclear bombs to the US, writes Gordon MacKerron. The move is a symptom of a huge problem that's afflicting all nuclear nations - what to do with their nuclear wastes? The only real solution is deep geological disposal. But it's…

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