I'm sorry to hear that, I really am. But for you to diminish someone else's achievements by claiming privilege, is really kind of sad. At the end of the day, she's proven that she's capable, she graduated from various different space related courses at the age of 7, and she's genuinely driven to achieve a goal, whether or not her parents may be wealthy (there's no info about them online). Reducing those achievements 'privilege', is nothing short of spiteful

Plenty of Astronauts come from the air force / have a military background. It can be done, just gotta play with the hand they've been dealt.
Motorsport is a pretty money driven and finically taxing sport, yet there are cases where people make it by showing their skill rather than money.

Congrats, you've explained the joke!

... their civilian counterparts must be feared too.

While I understand that, the proposition for this storage directly solves the German in issue you've mentioned. The radioactive rods, won't need to be kept in these containers, the sedementary rock that they're buried in, as well as the layers of clay (and, yes, the storage tanks they're in now), will prevent the radiation leakage. It's thousands of feet under ground, and in the eventuality a significant amount of erosion occurs over thousands of years the radioactive material will no longer be emitting harmful amount of radiation.
I fully believe in a solution such as this, as well as the use of radioactive isotopes up until a time we can support renewable energy.
The Co2 per KWh differences between fossil fuels and nuclear fuels as well as the infrastructure costs between current renewables and nuclear power is phenomenal.
There are legitimate causes for concern, don't get me wrong, but it seems to be largely baseless and forms around the idea that because nuclear weapons are bad...

@f_kyeahhamburg
The Finnish are currently building a funky little storage facility. It's called the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository. The facility, which began construction in 2004 will house the world's current nuclear waste, and then be filled in with clay after a few years. The clay, prevents radiation from leaking into the environment because of the wastes' lack of penetrating capability, and markings for the site will be removed in an attempt to ensure the site is never discovered.
A final resting place for the waste, completely undisturbed and unknown to an entire civilization, long past the human timeline.

You'll understand sarcasm someday, Captain Condescending.

Wonderful, thanks for the meaningless elaboration.

What

Oh yeah?! Tell that to the uh.....the ummmmm....hmphf. I can't even say the British for this one.

When you get customer and consumer, mixed up