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 The major problem of nuclear waste is what to do with it.

This month's Nature magazine (subscription required) has a couple of articles on assesing the "cost" of nuclear power:

Nuclear power: Chernobyl and the future: when the price is right

Once touted as too cheap to meter, nuclear power has become too costly to build. But the economics may be shifting, finds Jim Giles.

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