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The most interesting thing in the article for me was that the 250 reactors needed to power Europe would produce 1.3 cubic kilometers of nuclear waste per year.
by crmd 4y ago
The most interesting thing in the article for me was that the 250 reactors needed to power Europe would produce 1.3 cubic kilometers of nuclear waste per year. That’s actually way more waste volume than I assumed. I wonder what the figure is for the United States.
- kitkat_new 4y agothere isn't enough uranium for that
- brutusborn 4y agoI couldn't find that number. Is it hidden in the figures or did you calculate it off something?
- crmd 4y agoThose exact numbers are cited in the last paragraph of the article.
- brutusborn 4y agoMy bad, I skimmed it looking for km2 or 1.3.
- JanisErdmanis 4y agoYour numbers are wrong. It is a known fact that France produces less than ~ 1 m^3 radioactive waste annually.
- Kon5ole 4y agoIt is not not a known fact, it is in fact not true. France has over 1 million m3 of waste, and I assure you they have not been operating nuclear plants for over a million years. :) Sources: https://www.ompe.org/en/france-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-its-radioactive-waste/ https://www.ompe.org/en/france-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-i... The La Manche facility had 527 000m3 of waste in 1994: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuredisposal-of-short-lived-waste-in-france/ https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuredisposal-of-shor...