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Sure. I too am annoyed by the shut down of nuclear power plants. Any marginal ultra-long-term safety gain of not generating new waste is more than offset by the
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
Sure. I too am annoyed by the shut down of nuclear power plants. Any marginal ultra-long-term safety gain of not generating new waste is more than offset by the already sunk costs of the nuclear power plant. And the bad effects of coal burning.
- concordDance 4y agoAlso, spent nuclear fuel is very easy to safely dispose of, we just don't want to because: A. It's useful and can be reprocessed into useful fuel once that's allowed and we can do it cheaply. B. The media and public would throw a fit if people started dumping (glassed) nuclear waste on the ocean floor. Because the media and public are completely innumerate and cannot do things like multiplication required to calculate the less than 0.1% radioactivity increase the ocean would experience.