Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes
What a giant fucking waste of effort.<p>That waste is fuel, and in human history, zero people have been harmed by nuclear waste.<p>This obsession with nuclear waste is ridiculous.  We produce less of it than any other kind of energy waste by four orders of magnitude, and it&#x27;s far less radioactive than the waste that&#x27;s being belched into the atmosphere to cause global warming.<p>This ridiculous hand-wringing is why we&#x27;re shutting nuclear reactors down during a fuel shortage crisis in the middle of climate change.<p>We have *<i>got*</i> to stop pretending this is real work.