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Much of the issue with the waste is that it still doesn't have proper disposal logistics. It's mostly just piling up next to reactors with no place to go.[1] If
by notabee 6y ago
Much of the issue with the waste is that it still doesn't have proper disposal logistics. It's mostly just piling up next to reactors with no place to go.[1]
If we still can't solve the storage problem after decades of effort, why should we have any confidence in promises made by that particular industry? [2]
If one goes to search for information on the problem, you can see some very obvious SEO manipulation to bring up only industry-positive sites.
1. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/716837443/as-nuclear-waste-piles-up-private-companies-pitch-new-ways-to-store-it https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/716837443/as-nuclear-waste-pi...
2. https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/department-of-energy-nuclear-waste-reclassification-yucca.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/department-of-energy-nu...
- blargmaster33 6y agoThe amount of waste is miniscule and it's only government regulations keeping us from extracting more enemy form the "waste".
- andromeduck 6y agoIt's not really industry that failed here but rather the government that imposed a tax for a service that was never rendered and whose revenues were later squandered.