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Nuclear waste leaking into an aquifer or the ocean will not be a local problem.
by kaikai 9y ago
Nuclear waste leaking into an aquifer or the ocean will not be a local problem.
- lmm 9y agoEither it will be local, or it will be dilute enough not to matter.
- y4mi 9y agountil it doesn't and it does. i'm sure that its safe to dump small amounts of radioactive material into the oceans, but if you start to build more reactors and dispose of all the waste into the ocean, the dilution will soon cease to be enough to offset a global ... disaster.
- lmm 9y agoNope. Unless we start importing uranium from off-planet, there just isn't enough material to make the whole planet significantly radioactive.
- all_usernames 9y agoWhat does significantly radioactive mean? If I am a single individual, a single particle of Cesium or whatever could give me cancer. It's not an averages game when you're talking about real lives.
- wbl 9y agoDo you know how much uranium coal plants release into the air?
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoThere's natural amounts of radiation that people are exposed to. Taking a commercial airline flight or handling a banana are good comparable measures - if it's less than those, it's not really worth worrying about.
- adrianN 9y agoHow concerned are you about cosmic rays?
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- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoNot necessarily. Ocean disposal of nuclear waste used to be an option, but was banned in 1993. Studies of disposal sites in use before then seem to indicate that any problems found were very local[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_waste#Environmental_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_...