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    7 days ago

    anywhere from thousands of years to millions of years

    only in a strictly thermal reactor environment, if you’re using a fast reactor, something like the SSR that is currently being worked on in canada, it can both burn waste, and reduce it’s lifespan to a much more reasonable length.

    As always, development is the problem, if we had more energy being focused on this, we would be farther along, but such is scientific development.