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Let's be fair: it's clean on the CO2 front, but the nuclear waste will be relevant for 100.000 years! That is way, way longer than we have anything like civili
by OtomotO 4y ago
Let's be fair: it's clean on the CO2 front, but the nuclear waste will be relevant for 100.000 years!
That is way, way longer than we have anything like civilization!
- rhn_mk1 4y agoAt the moment it seems that the CO2 problem is more pressing and of greater magnitude than the problem of nuclear waste. It sounds like a relevant tradeoff.
- slenk 4y agoNuclear waste, as far as I have been learning, is pretty "safe". Yeah, you need a place to deal with it, but it's mostly highly shielded solids. A video I watched recently explaining a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k
- OtomotO 4y agoYes, logically I agree. I'd rather the species sees another millenium to deal with this, than "go extinct" before. Yet that is half the reason for the drama. The other half being Fukushima and Chernobyl. Humans are not rational beings, hence we need to look at where their fear comes from, to find appropriate solutions.