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The finns building a long-term storage site for waste produced domestically does not equate to their being no global issue with long-term nuclear waste sequestr
by FooHentai 6y ago
The finns building a long-term storage site for waste produced domestically does not equate to their being no global issue with long-term nuclear waste sequestration. There absolutely is.
The only site in the entire world currently intaking waste is WIPP, and it's been dogged by problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
The only two other sites that have ever actively taken in waste, Gorleben and Morsleben in Germany, are now closed and both have severe site stability issues requiring ongoing remediation into the billions of euros to ensure the sites don't fail.
- andbberger 6y agoThis project has definitively proved that it's a political problem and not a technical one. The solution is to build a deep unmarked hole and bury it, duh. I think it's not that controversial of a statement to say that the main problem with nuclear energy in general is political. As evidenced by the fact that this thread exists and full of people who are trying really hard to find problems with our only extant technology for carbon-free large-scale energy production. And that we keep shutting down perfectly good nuclear power plants. There's just no basis on fact here. Meanwhile, the water is lapping at our feet.