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Nuclear waste does not sit in one place and it does move. We are talking about longer time scales, from decades up. With nuclear power as the main cure against
by lispm 5y ago
Nuclear waste does not sit in one place and it does move. We are talking about longer time scales, from decades up.
With nuclear power as the main cure against CO2 production we would need to build thousands of nuclear power plants world wide. Let's say Germany would need a hundred (remember we need to replace gas for heating and oil for traffic). 80 million people. World population is roughly 100 times of that.
Good luck with that.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIts vitrified in glass, and then placed into a copper barrel amd welded shut. Where and how does that move in 200 years?
- lispm 5y agoThe reality looks like this: https://www.bge.de/en/asse/short-information/ https://www.bge.de/en/asse/short-information/ Nuclear waste buried underground. Didn't work like planned. Now it needs another several billion Euros to deal with that failure. It took less than 200 years to waste several billion Euros on a failed storage site. It wasn't even for highly radioactive waste.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThat's a really of half a century ago, when being gay was a crime in Britain, Asbestos was still used in construction, lead in petrol and paint on kids toys was still legal, you could rape your wife and it wouldn't be a crime, and, most shockingly, the top marginal tax rate in US was 70%, and today anyone suggesting that is cla communist.
- lispm 5y agoExactly, and that's the problem. This stuff has to last much longer. It didn't.