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Nuclear Waste Is Misunderstood
- mpweiher 4y agohttps://archive.is/Ykgfb https://archive.is/Ykgfb
- stop50 4y agoCarbin free? Only the direct generation is carbon free, the mining, extraction and conzentration are very harmful the the environment. Nuclear powerplants are also easy military targets. anyone who has even temporary power over one in an military conflict has an unfair advantage. There is an reason why france and others put their plants near the borders, especially at rivers that flow out of the country
- 226_ebro_treaty 4y agoThis might sound like a dumb question, but why don't we just collect all the nuclear waste in the world and store it in the middle of nowhere in Canada and have that place governed by a UN-like organization, far away from the most densely populated areas of the world?
- jjgreen 4y agoIt remains dangerous for thousands of years, our species has limited experience of plans, organisations which make commitments on that scale of time.
- moremetadata 4y ago[dead]
- coldtea 4y agoSo, like constantly carrying such waste from all over the world to a single location, one that could be 8-10.000 miles away from some source locations? What could possibly go wrong...
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- coldtea 4y agoNuclear waster being misunderstood? Perhaps. But astroturfing from the nuclear industry, from the other hand, is also often mistaken for reality...
- keskival 4y agoWe already store hazardous waste in controlled conditions in massive amounts, even waste which doesn't have a half-life such as mercury. Why aren't we getting headlines that "we need to store all this mercury till the end of universe and time"?