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> nuclear waste I think this is the most over-hyped point. I used to think this was a big issue, but we're talking a swimming pool of spicy rocks for an entire
by exabrial 4y ago
> nuclear waste
I think this is the most over-hyped point. I used to think this was a big issue, but we're talking a swimming pool of spicy rocks for an entire nation.
- defterGoose 4y agoWonderful. Using this in the future.
- blibble 4y agothe UK's high level waste for the past 70 years would fit inside half of one olympic sized swimming pool this is a problem we are capable of dealing with
- pjc50 4y agoThe problem is what happens if that pool leaks into the water table or sea, because things like caesium are bioaccumulative. The absolute volume is kind of irrelevant because many of these substances are very dense.
- exabrial 4y agoThis is the problem with humans: They have a hard time recognizing conceptual scale without examples. A _swimming pool_. Literally more readioactive crap from outerspace hits the ocean every year than this. And no, The absolute volume does matter. That is non-sensical and nonsense. There's more uranium in sea water that humans would put every "pollute" it with