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Somewhat related - it is very impressive to me how atomic energy players pushed some genius PR onto people in terms of advertising that atomic energy is so so c
by joering2 10y ago
Somewhat related - it is very impressive to me how atomic energy players pushed some genius PR onto people in terms of advertising that atomic energy is so so clean.
I mean - most people I asked were just thinking that atomic energy creates steam and that's all.
When I educated my family and friends that its not the case, and that radioactive after-material is put in boxes and stored on the oceans' floor with life expectancy of 25,000 years before it will start leaking, everyone was in shock how this has even been approved in the first place...
- lifeformed 10y agoCoal kills us now. I'm sure we can think of a better containment solution in 25,000 years...
- eximius 10y agoPut the box in another box?
- z3t4 10y agodo u see much 25k old documentation? Everything we know today will be forgotten.
- lifeformed 10y agoIt won't take 25k years to figure out how to deal with it. Maybe 50 or 100 years? It's just a transitional form of energy til we figure out fusion and scale up other sources. And honestly, who cares about a person 25k years from now? We can all just die now, or instead some explorer 25,000 years from now dies, assuming we didn't figure it out by then. I'd rather cavemen left us with a dangerous storage area rather than destroy the entire atmosphere and ecosystem.