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So glad we finally designated the permanent repository for nuclear waste in the United State. /s Since the waste will almost certainly not be accepted by anoth
by miguelazo 4y ago
So glad we finally designated the permanent repository for nuclear waste in the United State. /s
Since the waste will almost certainly not be accepted by another state, I would like to know where it will be stored in Georgia. I have some guesses, based on the demographics of adjacent populations, but perhaps the many HN nuclear boosters have some specifics?
- alexfromapex 4y agoFrom what I’ve researched, there’s not that much waste from reactors anymore. The glowing sludge of doom usually comes from enriched isotopes for weapons.
- kennend3 4y agoI have access to the radioactivity diagrams for a 10 year old spent fuel bundle. Needless to say it is rather radioactive... But it is easily contained by the water in the pools, and then the dry storage casks it is moved to once it is no longer "thermally hot" and needs constant cooling. This guy is just your typical anti-nuke posting the classic talking points about all the billions of tonnes of used fuel?
- seatac76 4y agoWaste is typically stored on site after it has been entombed in concrete. So it will be stored on-site not in a secondary spot. That is until if ever they are able to get Yucca mountain going again.
- exabrial 4y agoStep 1. Build a swimming pool somewhere in the US Step... There is no other steps. Don't overthink it. A couple of hot bricks every 5 years isn't something to freak out about.
- Gwypaas 4y agoThe risk is the soup of strangely radioactive materials leaking into the water table. Fission is not a clean chemical reaction, this is the spread of the atomic masses for different kinds of fission processes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File:ThermalFissionYield.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File:Th...
- exabrial 4y agoWe’re Perry good a building swimming pools at this point. We’ll be fine.
- kennend3 4y agolooks like we found "that guy".. the one who posts about the enormous amount of used fuel circling the globe looking for a home. There is a nuclear power plant not far from me. it went "live" in 1973 and all the spent fuel to date is still stored on site. Step 1 : sit in a pool for around 10 years Step 2 : sit in a dry canister for a few more decades. Eventually we need to find a better solution, but the fact remains there is not a whole lot of it.
- miguelazo 4y agoOkay, cool. So as long as there's never a natural/man-made disaster that disturbs said pool, no problem. Good thing that would never happen in a place like Georgia. And yeah, eventually we'll take care of it. Just like we've been saying for 50 years.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoBurning fossil fuels produces more net harm than any amount of radioactive waste ever will. Radioactivity just manages to be scarier than air pollution and climate change because our psychology doesn't map well to reality because we evolved to be afraid of fast-moving problems, not slow-moving ones.