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> Maintaining waste for hundreds of years is feasible, and on a whole different scale than a 30,000 year storage plan. Maintining nuclear waste for 500 years i
by hollander 5y ago
> Maintaining waste for hundreds of years is feasible, and on a whole different scale than a 30,000 year storage plan.
Maintining nuclear waste for 500 years is not feasible. I agree that it's on a different level than 30.000 year, but we cannot predict what happens in the next 50 years, let alone the next 500 or 1000 years. The thought experiment is real simple. Look back 500 years - there is no comparison. I'm still afraid that there will be some kind of destruction of society, and who is going to take care of this stuff?
- q1w2 5y agoNuclear waste is buried in underground rock formations with geological ages in the millions of years. It's not a perfect solution, but if we don't start building out nuclear, we're going to flood most cities on Earth in 50 years. All these renewable green energy solutions have failed to provide BASELINE reliable power. Nuclear is literally the only near-zero-carbon solution that works.