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And all three those "issues" are FUD: > Cost This follows directly from unfounded fear from the next two reasons. If coal, that causes 7 000 000 deaths/year i

And all three those "issues" are FUD: > Cost This follows directly from unfounded fear from the next two reasons. If coal, that causes 7 000 000 deaths/year is appropriately and proportional regulated what would it cost ? > Waste What waste ? The small university library sized cube of waste that simply sits there doing nothing ? Where do you want that, in the air you breathe as waste from coal plants, or under a few meters of topsoil beneath a park somewhere. > Security and safety Zero lives were lost due to radiation poisoning after a level R9 earthquake and resulting tsunami killed 25000 people. All harm from Fukishima will come from people's panic and fear, fuelled by people like you that perpetuate nuclear FUD.

ljf 10y ago
The waste is not simply the spent nuclear fuel, but much of the machinery and systems around it, plus the discarded items used daily in the management of a plant (clothes etc). This low level nuclear waste while 'only' dangerous for 100 to 500 years, is huge - vastly bigger than the 76000 metric tons of spent fuel: http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Site-Storage-of-Nuclear-Waste http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Si... I don't have the tonnage of the low level waste to hand, but it is certainly much larger than the high level waste.