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🧫 Alkaline-loving microbes could help safeguard nuclear waste buried deep underground for thousands of years
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-alkaline-microbes-safeguard-nuclear-deep.html

Alkaline-loving microbes could help safeguard nuclear waste buried deep underground for thousands of years
Billions of alkaline-loving microbes could offer a new way to protect nuclear waste buried deep underground. This approach overcomes the limitations of current cement barriers, which can crack or break down over time.

A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada to Utah has received an initial green light.
EnergySolutions is pursing a plan calling for importation of 1.31 million cubic yards of the waste from Canada for disposal in Tooele County.
Canadian officials and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission still need to sign off on the proposal.

EnergySolutions proposal to deposit Canadian radioactive waste in Tooele County gets initial OK
EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

Heute vor 43 Jahren: Am 7. Januar 1983 verabschiedete der 97. Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten den Nuclear Waste Policy Act, ein umfassendes nationales Programm für die sichere und dauerhafte Entsorgung hochradioaktiver Abfälle - 40 Jahre nachdem dort der erste #Atommüll anfiel.

The hyperscalers' plans for powering their AI datacentres are mostly nuclear, including investing in small modular reactors.
I'm all for that, as long as they don't externalise all the negatives to governments and leave them (us) holding the bag of deadly waste when the bubble bursts.
That sounds too negative. I am genuinely pro-nuclear energy and look forward to the research, just, I don't trust billionaires.
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