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This has been known for a long time in informed circles. The problems with nuclear are waste and that we use vastly outdated designs and fuel sources. Nuclear
by abritinthebay 9y ago
This has been known for a long time in informed circles.
The problems with nuclear are waste and that we use vastly outdated designs and fuel sources.
Nuclear is not perfect, but we should not buy into a perfection fallacy when looking to get away from fossil fuels.
Solar is a better long term bet but a good progressive nuclear strategy that added a handful of small modern reactors could be massively complementary to it.
- Fej 9y agoWaste is a miniscule problem. Put it in the ground. Or, perhaps, in the side of a mountain... The only reason waste is an issue in the United States is that the Congress decided that nuclear waste repositories have to last for 10,000 years uninterrupted. As far as we know this is just about impossible. 10 millenia ago we were in the caves. Placed at the bottom of a pool, it's perfectly safe. This is a solved problem. The issue is political (especially from uneducated NIMBYs) rather than technical. https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
- zuzun 9y agoWhat a flawed comparison. Take the water from the pool and drink it and give it your livestock to drink and water your plants with it and see how that works out over the span of a few decades.