I always have the feeling many people greatly overestimate the amount of nuclear waste that was actually produced. So far we have produced an estimated 370000 tonnes of nuclear waste globally, which can be stored in about 22.000m³. [1]
This would fit in a 5m high storage facility the size of an American football field (which is even smaller than a European football field). As an additional comparison, the small Amazon fulfillment centers have about 40000m² of area [2] . Assuming the same 5m height, a small fullfillment center is nearly 10 times bigger than necessary to store all globally produced high-level nuclear waste.
Sure, the waste is hard to dispose and dangerous. But it really isn't much.
This would fit in a 5m high storage facility the size of an American football field (which is even smaller than a European football field). As an additional comparison, the small Amazon fulfillment centers have about 40000m² of area [2] . Assuming the same 5m height, a small fullfillment center is nearly 10 times bigger than necessary to store all globally produced high-level nuclear waste.
Sure, the waste is hard to dispose and dangerous. But it really isn't much.
[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
[2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/amazon-fulfillment#how-big-are-f...