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We as germans would like to keep our nuclear powerplants running as long as possible, but the question of how to store the nuclear waste for the little timespa
by rallyforthesun 4y ago
We as germans would like to keep our nuclear powerplants running as long as possible, but the question of how to store the nuclear waste for the little timespan of hundreds of thousand years has not been answered in a satisfying way.
The issue of nuclear waste storage is a complex and difficult one, as nuclear waste can remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years and requires specialized storage facilities that are secure and environmentally safe. Despite ongoing research and development into new storage technologies, no country has yet come up with a completely satisfactory solution to this problem.
- 0xDEF 4y ago>as nuclear waste can remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands Why does the German government and anti-nuclear activists insist on pushing this falsehood? After a few decades most of it will have decayed into low-radioactive isotopes. It will then just be the usual chemically toxic industrial waste.
- Mashimo 4y ago> no country has yet come up with a completely satisfactory solution to this problem. France and Finland have a decent solution. Germany was really really really bad at storing nuclear waste. Which is why I'm also against nuclear power plants in Germany.
- ohyes 4y agoYou’ve been misled and misinformed. The majority of Nuclear “waste” can be reprocessed and reused and the lifespan is not “hundreds of thousands of years.” Ironically the biggest issue ends up being the radioactive reactor components that you end up having to deal with when decommissioning.