Comment by Mashimo
2 days ago
> We can just pick some cave in northern Canada or central sahara
You make that sound easy. Finnland did it, France did it.
But for example Germany started to look for one in 1976, failed, rebooted in 2017 and the current estimate is we might one one in 2060.
Isn’t GP’s point, that it’s already enough for those two to have solved it? Not every country with a civil nuclear program needs its own waste containment, it’s just such a small absolute quantity.