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What about the tail risk of mismanagement of spent fuel?
by wingineer 5y ago
What about the tail risk of mismanagement of spent fuel?
- acidburnNSA 5y agoWe've managed spent fuel for decades with very little incident. Meanwhile continuing to power 80% of the world with combustion of fossil and biofuel kills ~8 million people per year. Comparing the very hypothetical tail of spent fuel risk to current and very real 8 million deaths/year is extremely difficult to justify. Oh yeah and combustion also causes climate change, which brings in all sorts of additional risks on top of the air pollution one.
- andbberger 5y agoOnce again, there was never really a 'waste problem' [0], and to the extent it does exist it has been definitively solved [1] [0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...