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Isn't the typical storage and handling for Uranium quite safe and even safer than oil ? Triuranium octoxide (Yellowcake): Yellowcake is as radiologically harm
by rvnx 5y ago
Isn't the typical storage and handling for Uranium quite safe and even safer than oil ?
Triuranium octoxide (Yellowcake):
Yellowcake is as radiologically harmless as natural potassium-carrying minerals or thorium-oxide mantles used in paraffin fuel lanterns.
- pessimizer 5y agoIt can't be safer than oil, because nobody who wants to make a dirty bomb is trying to steal your oil.
- Kye 5y agoIn this growing analogy, developers collecting data mindlessly are descendants of Early Anthropocene humans discovering entombed nuclear fuel and not understanding or ignoring the dire warnings outside.
- imwillofficial 5y agoThink nuclear reactors, not yellowcake.