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All nuclear waste ever produced in the US could be stored in an area the size of a football field
by planetsprite 4y ago
All nuclear waste ever produced in the US could be stored in an area the size of a football field
- ben_w 4y agoWhile true, this does not make it popular or lead to NIMBYs changing their mind. How important this is varies by nation, but it’s not nothing in most places.
- planetsprite 4y agoNuclear power is unpopular because of media messaging. Coal releases more radiation into the environment on average, even accounting for Chernobyl and Fukushima.
- ben_w 4y agoAlso because of the naturalism fallacy, and because of word association between “nuclear power” and “nuclear weapons”, and because of the zero-risk bias (most people have a preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk).
- 6581 4y agoThat's a rather meaningless assertion without stating how high you'd need to stack it.
- planetsprite 4y ago30 feet
- Krasnol 4y agoYou should check up on that Shellenberger meme before you spread it. That was is just the fuel and fuel is just a small part of all the waste. https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/ https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/
- planetsprite 4y agohowever the fuel constitutes 97% of the radiation of all waste
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- Krasnol 4y agoWhich is just another derailment phrase and completely useless for the discussion of nuclear waste. Yes it is very radioactive but that doesn't mean that the rest can be stored on a landfill. It is still so radioactive that we don't have a proper solution for it's storage. Only because the fuel is SO MUCH MORE radioactive, doesn't make the rest disappear or the football field argument valid in any way.