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It's a nuclear reactor that's about the size of a shipping container.

A complete power plant can be assembled from components that can be delivered anywhere an ordinary shipping container can.

The dangers of nuclear waste are comparable to other non-nuclear hazardous wastes modern industry generates. Many of these dangerous non-nuclear wastes have a half life of forever. After a few hundred years used nuclear fuel has about the same total radioactivity of the ores that it was mined from. Some of the radioactive elements in this used fuel are more mobile in the natural environment than those in natural ores but it's not a huge technical problem to contain them. This used fuel can also be recycled into new fuel and other useful elements.

Of course the most dangerous energy wastes humans produce come from fossil fuels. The most dangerous fossil fuel by far is natural gas because many people think it's clean (or at least better than coal) and it supports their renewable energy follies. We are well trained to completely dismiss natural gas accidents which kill people every year, accidents that smother people with carbon monoxide, explode entire buildings, or incinerate entire neighborhoods. What's far, far worse are the greenhouse gasses dumped recklessly everywhere as combustion products and methane leaks.

Natural gas will be the energy resource that destroys the natural environment as we know it and possibly cause the collapse of our current civilization.