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Robot begins removing Fukushima nuclear plant’s melted fuel.
(www.voanews.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It doesn't take a hundred years, but a couple of decades and it's hugely expensive. And nobody knows what to do with the waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_nuclear_power_stations
It's an amazing place. I visited last month. You can overlook the power station from a nearby lighthouse.
Fantastic. Just kick the can down the road and make it some future generations' problem. Great technology!
Sadly that's what the human race does. It's nothing unique to nuclear power.
It still baffles me, for example, that with all this technology, we still generate all this rubbish which we then bury in the ground. And we all know it. We all buy things in disposable packaging. We are all complicit.
Do you really have trouble understanding the difference between nuclear waste and regular waste?
Nuclear waste doesn't really pose problems substantially different from other forms of waste. There's lots of waste that isn't good for you if you come into contact with it, and stuff that'll remain in that state for a lot longer than anything radioactive enough to be a concern is.
So, no. Gotcha.
I'm not the person you were talking to, but I agree that I don't think that they have trouble distinguishing between nuclear and non-nuclear waste.