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> Political will aside, finding a place to store this stuff doesn’t seem like a massive problem. How about your backyard?

Blammar 4y ago
If I can access the fuel remaining in the rods, sure! I always wanted a 15kw thermal reactor in my back yard... just need a few cubic meters of Peltier pods...
franga2000 4y ago
I don't have a backyard, but if it turned out to be the most effective and safe solution to, let's say, dig a deep borehole under my hypothetical lawn, drop the waste down there and seal it back up, why not? From what I know of deep geological storage, I wouldn't mind living in a house on top of one of these sites. Since they're usually in the middle of nowhere, it would probably be even safer than living in a polluted city.
- TedShiller 4y ago
  > I don't have a backyard How convenient
  - franga2000 4y ago
    wow, yes, so convenient that the prospect of having a house is nothing but an unrealistic dream for my generation... What's your point??
    - TedShiller 4y ago
      If I had billions I’d give it all away. I promise.
ben_w 4y ago
I'd love to have a backyard big enough for that. The only problems I would have with it being in my hypothetical back yard would be other people thinking it was dangerous, leading to an urban decay cycle (this also applies to property with unlucky numbers, like 13 in the anglosphere), and/or lots of protesters and/or would-be terrorists not realising how deep the stuff is buried nor now hard it is to shift a multi-ton concrete-filled steel barrel.
jaredklewis 4y ago
In what sense? In the literal backyard of my house? No. Of course, I also support windmills, water reservoirs, lithium mining, and electric car factories and don't want any of those in my literal backyard either. The idea that it is hypocritical to advocate anything you wouldn’t want on your own residential property seems like such an obviously ridiculous idea, I'm not sure it makes sense to rebut. There are countless things society wants (factories, mines, landfills, warehouses, etc…) that don’t make sense to do in residential areas. In my figurative backyard, like the state I live in? Sure, I would definitely support California creating a nuclear waste storage facility. This isn't really anything groundbreaking. We already have millions of acres of landfills in the US. Like radioactive waste, trash is basically permanent and will be decomposing for at least hundreds of years. And no one wants a landfill "in their backyard," but somehow we still managed to create the thousands of landfills we have today. We can spare a few dozen acres to build a nuclear waste facility.
- TedShiller 4y ago
  > In the literal backyard of my house? No. Ok, so storage is a problem.
  - jaredklewis 4y ago
    Do you not throw anything away? All the trash you've ever created is kept in a landfill on your own property? Impressive!
    - TedShiller 4y ago
      My trash and your trash isn’t toxic to millions of people for millennia

Blammar 4y ago

If I can access the fuel remaining in the rods, sure! I always wanted a 15kw thermal reactor in my back yard... just need a few cubic meters of Peltier pods...

franga2000 4y ago

I don't have a backyard, but if it turned out to be the most effective and safe solution to, let's say, dig a deep borehole under my hypothetical lawn, drop the waste down there and seal it back up, why not? From what I know of deep geological storage, I wouldn't mind living in a house on top of one of these sites. Since they're usually in the middle of nowhere, it would probably be even safer than living in a polluted city.

TedShiller 4y ago
> I don't have a backyard How convenient
- franga2000 4y ago
  wow, yes, so convenient that the prospect of having a house is nothing but an unrealistic dream for my generation... What's your point??
  - TedShiller 4y ago
    If I had billions I’d give it all away. I promise.

ben_w 4y ago

I'd love to have a backyard big enough for that. The only problems I would have with it being in my hypothetical back yard would be other people thinking it was dangerous, leading to an urban decay cycle (this also applies to property with unlucky numbers, like 13 in the anglosphere), and/or lots of protesters and/or would-be terrorists not realising how deep the stuff is buried nor now hard it is to shift a multi-ton concrete-filled steel barrel.

jaredklewis 4y ago

In what sense? In the literal backyard of my house? No. Of course, I also support windmills, water reservoirs, lithium mining, and electric car factories and don't want any of those in my literal backyard either. The idea that it is hypocritical to advocate anything you wouldn’t want on your own residential property seems like such an obviously ridiculous idea, I'm not sure it makes sense to rebut. There are countless things society wants (factories, mines, landfills, warehouses, etc…) that don’t make sense to do in residential areas. In my figurative backyard, like the state I live in? Sure, I would definitely support California creating a nuclear waste storage facility. This isn't really anything groundbreaking. We already have millions of acres of landfills in the US. Like radioactive waste, trash is basically permanent and will be decomposing for at least hundreds of years. And no one wants a landfill "in their backyard," but somehow we still managed to create the thousands of landfills we have today. We can spare a few dozen acres to build a nuclear waste facility.

TedShiller 4y ago
> In the literal backyard of my house? No. Ok, so storage is a problem.
- jaredklewis 4y ago
  Do you not throw anything away? All the trash you've ever created is kept in a landfill on your own property? Impressive!
  - TedShiller 4y ago
    My trash and your trash isn’t toxic to millions of people for millennia