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How is nuclear waste clean? How is a possible reactor meltdown safe or cheap?

• pikzen 9y ago
  Nuclear waste is cleaner than what coal emits in the atmosphere. Store it in an underground facility, figure out what to do with it later. It's not perfect, but it's better than what we have currently for high volume electricity generation. As for reactor meltdowns, well, to give one example, France has beeen one of the world's biggest users of nuclear power, and we haven't had any meltdown ever. So, uh, don't build your reactors near dangerous zones, and don't go with the cheapest contractor for a critical piece of infrastructure? Meltdowns don't happen unless you do something really, really stupid. Nuclear power is still the better cost/production method we have for now. It's safe (yes, the stats include deaths while building which puts wind/ocean at a disadvantage, but overall it is just as safe as renewable energy), it's efficient. Just don't pull a Chernobyl and actually follow security measures.
• grigjd3 9y ago
  Reprocessing could take care of the waste problem.
• coin 9y ago
  The nuclear waste problem has already been solved, at this point it's a political issue. See http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html