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Seal it in metal and concrete -> done. You can now store it in any old warehouse. If you're really paranoid, put a sign "Warning: Dangerous Alligator!" on the d
by amalgamated_inc 4y ago
Seal it in metal and concrete -> done. You can now store it in any old warehouse. If you're really paranoid, put a sign "Warning: Dangerous Alligator!" on the door.
Half a billion per year is nothing compared to the damage we're preventing with climate change, is it?
- 93po 4y agoThey tend to bury the waste extremely far underground, and even than that isn't very expensive. It's a hell of a lot cheaper the the real world impacts we're seeing from carbon emissions today (over a million deaths a year).
- Schroedingersat 4y agoThe waste burial part alone costs about as much as onshore wind. It's only inexpensive compared to the reactor.
- 93po 4y agoThe real costs are nothing. The broken bureaucratic costs are high.
- miguelazo 4y agoYour neighbors not wanting nuclear waste leaking into their water system is not a bureaucratic cost.
- 93po 4y agoThere is literally zero risk of this for the sites that are chosen for storage, and the method of storage, even if it was directly below your home, is also at zero risk of causing this to happen. It isn't stored in leaking metal drums with green ooze falling down the side, and Jimbo doesn't occasionally knock one over when he sits on one for a lunch break.