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> Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces. That waste argument is repeated over and over again and just
by ascar 5y ago
> Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces.
That waste argument is repeated over and over again and just not relevant. Even if the waste problem is as massive as politics tries to claim (it isn't), that's not relevant for keeping the reactors running or even building new ones.
The absolute volume of waste produced is so low that keeping on relying on fission isn't changing the already existing waste problem in any meaningful way especially when considering breeding type reactors that can recycle existing "waste".
The argument is nothing but anti-fission propaganda and I wish it would stop being brought up as the first line of defense all the time.
- lampe3 5y agoThese reactors that recycle waste are not a thing right now in Germany. These are pretty old reactors from the 80s or earlier. Calling it propaganda tells me just one thing: its a waste of time discussing this more.
- _ph_ 5y agoWhich breeding reactors are available to burn the existing waste? France had some decades ago, but shut them down. Germany never finished its breeding reactor. As far as I know, only Russia has operating ones. Normally I might comment on how Russian nuclear technology might not set the benchmark for safety, but in the current situation, any possibility of nuclear cooperation with Russia seems to be rather small.