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Space usage and maintenance. Modifications of electric grid. Rare metal use. Compared to health and environmental damage done by mining, gas and oil prospectin
by AstralStorm 8y ago
Space usage and maintenance. Modifications of electric grid. Rare metal use.
Compared to health and environmental damage done by mining, gas and oil prospecting, it's cheap, but not as cheap as nuclear.
- sabertoothed 8y agoWhat makes you think nuclear has less severe externalities? And I am not even including in my considerations that countries have totally mismanaged the storage in the past (e.g. UK dumping it into the ocean, Germany dumping it into an old mine etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...