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Then there s the issue of waste. Whilst coal-generated ash is a hidden environmental disaster, and gas waste is mostly invisible CO2, the extreme problem of storing ‘spent fuel rods’ has to be addressed. Not only is the waste a viciously toxic material to human health, but the material is also desired by authoritarian regimes and worldwide terrorists. Dangerous now, and for tens of thousands of years. My calculations are that its ‘safe’ storage requires more steel and concrete than the reactor itself.