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renewables are not cheap when you factor in decommissioning which nuclear power does. FTFA: "The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that old solar
by stuff4ben 3y ago
renewables are not cheap when you factor in decommissioning which nuclear power does. FTFA: "The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that old solar panel disposal to meet 2050 Paris Accords 'will more than double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste.'"
- Krasnol 3y agoNuclear only factors in decommissioning in the way that it gives the responsibility away to future generations...
- stuff4ben 3y agowhat does that even mean? Nuclear factors in decommissioning to the cost of running it. Wind and solar have even more limited lifespans than nuclear plus there's the millions of tonnes of waste generated when you decommission them.
- illiarian 3y agoNuclear waste decommissioned from nuclear plants is very compact, almost completely safe at our current levels of handling it, and a lot of bruhaha around it is strictly political.
- Krasnol 3y agoI don't know "compact" makes anything better about it. Germany has been searching for a hole safe and deep enough for it for years. It costs taxpayer money and they still haven't found one. Meanwhile, the stuff is stored near the plants. Which is not safe. Also stuff which has been considered "safely stored" years ago needs to be dug out again. Which again costs taxpayer money.
- evilos 3y agoDry cask storage on site is absolutely safe. It's dry waste, there's nothing to leak. It sits in reinforced concrete casks that are rated to last over a hundred years. After that, you can just put it in a new cask and repeat. There's not very much of it so you can just keep it at the site.
- Krasnol 3y agoGermany alone has 120.000m³ low and mid waste which needs to be stored. However only a small part of it is ready to be stored (in the safe and deep hole Germany still couldn't find). 2016 they had 15.000t of spend fuel. When all the plants are gone, Germany will have 300.000m³ of waste which needs to disappear for a long time in hope that nobody will ever get the idea of digging it out again. No nuclear company will want to have to do with anything of that. They paid some ridiculous amount of money for their subsidized profits, and the taxpayers will have to deal with it for the next thousands of years. Nuclear technology is overdue. There are better, cheaper and cleaner alternatives already out there.
- evilos 3y agoLow/mid waste is mostly just normal trash after it sits for a year or two. Going through the trouble and expense of burying all of it like it's spent nuclear fuel is just wasted money. We spend billions of dollars pretending lightly radioactive material is going to kill someone. Not one person has ever died from handling nuclear waste.
- Krasnol 3y agoWell I guess the German government should have just asked evilos on the internets and not bother with all those scientists and regulations. Crazy them.
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