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Nuclear power is introducing lots of long-lived fission products into environment by slowly poisoning our biosphere. Right now the United States has at least 1
by novaRom 5y ago
Nuclear power is introducing lots of long-lived fission products into environment by slowly poisoning our biosphere.
Right now the United States has at least 108 sites designated as areas that are contaminated and unusable, sometimes many thousands of acres.
Events like Chernobyl and Fukushima will certainly happen again and again.
- oblio 5y agoThere are new nuclear plant designs that aren't really being given a chance.
- Ericson2314 5y ago> slowly poisoning our biosphere Relative to what! Coal power plans spew out more radiation. You could screw over just one km^3 of earth putting all our waste there for hundreds of years. Localizing the damage like that is almost incomparably better.
- titzer 5y ago> Nuclear power is introducing lots of long-lived fission products into environment by slowly poisoning our biosphere. Nuclear waste from power generation is solid. A typical plant products 3 cubic meters of solid waste per year, which is stored on-site in cooling pools. Compare that to hundreds of thousands of tons per plant of radioactive fly ash just spewed into the atmosphere and millions of tons of CO2. You're going to need a citation for the "108 contaminated sites that are unusable." Also a thousand acres is a little over a square mile; again, which I doubt. That is absolutely not how waste is managed in the US, and leaks like that do not happen. And if you want to talk about slowly poisoning the biosphere, stop with the anti-nuclear hype and start talking about microplastics and pesticides.