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China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Some types of reactors can also use those waste products as fuel and in turn make them into other waste products that only last a couple hundred years, so it's not a easy calculation to make unless you know what's deployed in the future.