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Deep geologic repositories have a scientific consensus as being safe and appropriate solutions to high level nuclear waste. Finland's Onkalo is mostly construct
by acidburnNSA 4y ago
Deep geologic repositories have a scientific consensus as being safe and appropriate solutions to high level nuclear waste. Finland's Onkalo is mostly constructed and finishing up licensing right now. It's a solved problem.
https://posiva.fi/en/ https://posiva.fi/en/
Number of deaths from stored commercial nuclear waste worldwide? zero.
People always ask: "what about the waste?"
Nowadays we answer: "What about it?"
Air pollution and climate change are vastly more serious and challenging problems than the storage of high-level nuclear waste.
There was just a huge twitter thread related to this with like 33k RTs and over 100k likes: https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856 https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856