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By not hiding it away, but using warehouses that are actively staffed just like the plant that made the waste. Of course these facilities should be secure insta
by voidlogic 11y ago
By not hiding it away, but using warehouses that are actively staffed just like the plant that made the waste. Of course these facilities should be secure installations. But the root of the problem is not wanted to actively take ownership responsibility for the waste. I imagine every major city having its secure storage installation.
Consider the scale of waste generated as well. All the waste used to power a life of electrical usage creates was the size of a pea.
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- theoh 11y agoThe complex "social" side of the problem (for example, the vast amount of waste produced by the manufacture of nuclear warheads during the Cold War) means that it is not easily solved. There's a documentary film coming out about this by Peter Galison and Rob Moss. http://containmentmovie.com/ http://containmentmovie.com/
- lojack 11y ago> All the waste used to power a life of electrical usage creates was the size of a pea. Source on this? Best I could find shows that 3 cubic meters of waste is generated per year for a "typical 1000 MWe light water reactor" after reprocessing and all (which isn't always done). [1] With 99 plants in the US (not counting the plants with multiple reactors) that leads to 297m^3 of waste. With a population of 318 million, that's about 9.3x10-7, or approximately 4-5 peas per year or 367 peas over the course of a lifetime. [1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear-Wastes/Radioactive-Waste-Management/#ManageHLW http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear... EDIT: Forgot that we only get about 20% of our power from nuclear energy, so it's actually closer to 1835 peas.