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If I was going to college I would get a degree in nuclear engineering. It has to be the future.

• bayesian_horse 5y ago
  Not the immediate future though... the current technology is unsustainable because of the waste, and everything that could solve it is too unproven to be rolled out big scale any time soon.
  • whiddershins 5y ago
    The waste just isn’t that much.
    • bayesian_horse 5y ago
      Enough so that most countries don't know where to store it and nobody wants it in their backyard. Unfortunately, many democractically run countries don't have much area that is "nobobody's backyard" and at the same time geologically stable enough so no radioactive material will ever leak. Even "very little waste" is quite a big problem if you don't know where to put it. And proponents of nuclear power want to scale it up by a few times, then run the scheme for a couple hundred years.