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If your argument (or the argument you're standing by) says "the spent fuel can be recycled", but then you say "well even if we can't recycle it we can just bury

If your argument (or the argument you're standing by) says "the spent fuel can be recycled", but then you say "well even if we can't recycle it we can just bury it" (which by the by, is what happens a reasonable chunk of French nuclear waste), it makes your entire argument (or the argument you're standing by) sound... how do I put this.... juvenile. We know it can be buried. That’s what we're arguing against. What kind of mentality does it take to think that "aha! We can just bury it" is a gotcha response when someone says "but what about all the nuclear waste". That's like saying "what should we do about plastic waste?" "Aha! We can bury it". > so about 7 years' worth of powering the whole country Wow, what a long term solution you hate there. > less damaging that the current fossil fuel "strategy" You realise that literally no one arguing against nuclear power, thinks fossil fuels are the alternative right? What is it with nuclear proponents and ridiculous straw man arguments.

kuchenbecker 3y ago
The point is this is tractable. Your argument is Sophist deconstructing the previous argument without contributing to the discussion by nitpicking points.
GeneralMayhem 3y ago
> What kind of mentality does it take to think that "aha! We can just bury it" is a gotcha response when someone says "but what about all the nuclear waste". It's not a "gotcha" response - it's simply pointing out that "all" the nuclear waste is really not that much. > That's like saying "what should we do about plastic waste?" "Aha! We can bury it". No... because the whole point is the relative quantity. There's an absurd amount of plastic. Much, much, much more. And even collecting it into one place is hard, since it's in tiny bits in every room on the planet, whereas nuclear reactor byproducts tend to be centralized and easy to locate.

kuchenbecker 3y ago

The point is this is tractable. Your argument is Sophist deconstructing the previous argument without contributing to the discussion by nitpicking points.

GeneralMayhem 3y ago

> What kind of mentality does it take to think that "aha! We can just bury it" is a gotcha response when someone says "but what about all the nuclear waste". It's not a "gotcha" response - it's simply pointing out that "all" the nuclear waste is really not that much. > That's like saying "what should we do about plastic waste?" "Aha! We can bury it". No... because the whole point is the relative quantity. There's an absurd amount of plastic. Much, much, much more. And even collecting it into one place is hard, since it's in tiny bits in every room on the planet, whereas nuclear reactor byproducts tend to be centralized and easy to locate.