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If that were true, where did all the waste that we are currently burying/storing come from?
by giarc 10y ago
If that were true, where did all the waste that we are currently burying/storing come from?
- quicklyfrozen 10y agoPretty sure he means per person.
- acidburnNSA 10y agoYes, per capita.
- Twisell 10y agoAs I understand he meant by capita. Meaning your personal impact in term of nuclear waste would be a soda can for your whole life. Considering the volume of non-recyclable regular waste we produce as northerners, this actually look pretty small. Of course this soda can must be stored with more precaution than our other wastes. And we cannot just assume that future generations will be able to recycle all nuclear waste using futuristic engineering. But from a practical standpoint it's seems, as of now, more easy to manage some precisely located wastes than to disseminate CO2 in vast quantity and expect that our kids can catch them using futuristic engineering.
- cmdrfred 10y agoIt has to be stored, but it doesn't have to be stored on Earth.
- AstralStorm 10y agoIt is more cost efficient and much easier to store it on Earth for now and foreseeable future. Since the volume is small, uninhabitable areas can be easily put to use.
- jacobr1 10y agoI think the figure is on a per-individual basis. Some quick googling revealed this: http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Site-Storage-of-Nuclear-Waste http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Si... > Over the past four decades, the entire industry has produced 76,430 metric tons of used nuclear fuel. If used fuel assemblies were stacked end-to-end and side-by-side, this would cover a football field about eight yards deep.