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The future will bring technology to harvest more energy or otherwise neutralize the waste. I believe that future will come long before warnings in today's lang
by ballenf 5y ago
The future will bring technology to harvest more energy or otherwise neutralize the waste.
I believe that future will come long before warnings in today's languages become unintelligible.
If there's some kind of apocalypse where science gets a hard reset, then sealed up nuclear waste is probably very low on the list of realistic and dangerous threats.
- anyfoo 5y ago> The future will bring technology to harvest more energy or otherwise neutralize the waste. Optimistic. My turn: The future will bring technology to make spiders talk to cats. Prove me wrong! > If there's some kind of apocalypse where science gets a hard reset, then sealed up nuclear waste is probably very low on the list of realistic and dangerous threats. Nuclear waste might be relatively low in the immediate time frame after a science-resetting apocalypse, but the societies emerging afterwards will probably appreciate having a warning before they build their new settlements and water wells on a nuclear waste site. Especially if that nominally sealed site seeps out radioactive sludge due to critical containment failure only long after the settlement was established.
- db48x 5y agoThis. What we currently call “nuclear waste” is just a fuel for a type of nuclear reactor that we could build, but haven’t yet built due to over–regulation of the nuclear industry. If we had extracted all of the energy from it then it wouldn’t be radioactive any more, and if we had reactors for doing that then we wouldn’t need to store anything.