“All US spent nuclear fuel til date can fit in a football field 10 yards deep.”

It sounds not big, but considering the first nuclear plant went on line in 1960s and nuclear went up gradually to 19.5% of total US generation mix today, is it still small? I don’t think we can afford to go fully nuclear if that means 1000x or 10000x waste generation rate. There is still a long way to go before humanity explores galaxy, we can’t simply “go for it” without proper planning and estimating.

Everything comes with pros and cons. Current technology has totally no deal to treat spent nuclear fuel other than storage. So the question comes to how to deal with storage and for how long. The radiation has decay time periods, will demand never catch up with storage space replenishment? Or will the storage space never runout even with exploding increase of demand? Or are we just hoping new technology somehow solve this? Questions deserve answers.

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