In my previous posts I've given a very barebones introduction into the world of nuclear waste and how we're going to deal with it. In this last post I'd like to revisit why I thought this topic was worth writing about and also what my final opinion on it is. This topic is important for two reasons. Firstly, because it is very often what anti-nuclear arguments boil down to, and secondly because no matter how you feel about nuclear, no matter what happens in the future to nuclear power plants around the world, we will still already have 276,000 tonnes of waste to deal with. Its a problem that we just have to solve. So, is the geological deposition of nuclear waste the answer to the nuclear issue? Let me tell you from my own perspective. I've always been against nuclear energy, the idea that it could produce toxic waste that would remain toxic for time scales beyond my comprehension just seemed frightening. And especially in this day and age when renewables have bee