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Aside from waste storage there's also the cost of dismantling old reactors. The Wikipedia article on nuclear decommissioning makes for some depressing reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning

The tl;dr being "with a few notable exceptions, it's just too damn expensive so we just ignore the problem"



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