Japan's upcoming nuclear waste dump

Posted: 13th December 2021

NUCLEAR waste is an interminable curse that eternally haunts the future of civilisation for hundreds, and even thousands, of years.

The challenge of making nuclear power safer doesn’t end after the power has been generated. Nuclear fuel remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years after it is no longer useful in a commercial reactor.

There are 440 nuclear power plants in the world, all of which use nuclear fission, prompting one simple question: is the process of generating heat via nuclear fission with a byproduct of extremely toxic radioactive waste lasting hundreds, or more, years for purposes of simply ‘boiling water’ the epitome of human stupidity?