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I've resigned myself to hoping France makes new investments so we can just buy it from them on the market. Nuclear isn't happening in Germany. Barely anyone in
by _cenw 4y ago
I've resigned myself to hoping France makes new investments so we can just buy it from them on the market. Nuclear isn't happening in Germany. Barely anyone in the anti-nuclear movement is willing to have a discussion beyond "Chernobyl was bad, THTR was a huge failure and waste disposal is a problem I will accept nothing but a perfect solution on".
- RGamma 4y agoWhat are current feasible, sustainable solutions to long-term nuclear waste storage? Any pointers?
- throw0101c 4y ago> What are current feasible, sustainable solutions to long-term nuclear waste storage? Any pointers? Bury it in geologically stable areas. At some point: it will cool down on its own, or technology will be developed to re-use it in an economically-amiable fashion and we can bring it back up. We know how to re-process it [1] but no body really wants to pay for that. As it stands: before we start worrying about what happens to nuclear "waste" 500+ years in the future, we have to get through the next 100 years and all the issues that climate change is causing right now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
- _cenw 4y agoAll I know is that I'm more comfortable burying some extra waste next to the stuff we already have to bury somewhere (like Onkalo) than burn more fossil fuels. Trading long term for short term isn't the best, but I don't really see anything else getting us off a track to further global ecological devastation you couldn't cause with nuclear waste even if you were trying.