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What about nuclear waste? Is that no problem for us just because it‘ll be a huge problem for hundreds of future generations? Nuclear energy is not clean energy.
by fabifabulous 3y ago
What about nuclear waste? Is that no problem for us just because it‘ll be a huge problem for hundreds of future generations? Nuclear energy is not clean energy. And the illusion that it is will only postpone the further concentration on renewables - as it did in the past. It‘s also not cheap, it‘s very expensive up to unaffordable if you include permanent disposal into the price per kWh.
Fusion reactors would be the only form that could have a future.
- nickpp 3y agoWaste is a non-problem. Just burry it in a mine (that's where it came from anyway), put warning signs around and maintain them. Furthermore current reactor designs use and reuse fuel and irradiated materials. But it's beyond weird to worry about a problem for a hundred generations in the future when there is a civilisation ending danger straight here in our times: Climate Change. While worrying about some small group in the future stumbling upon and dying because of our buried nuclear waste - mammoth storms, pollution, raised sea level, heat waves, thirst and hunger are already killing or threatening to kill millions right now. And, BTW, burning coal spews (slightly) radioactive smoke in the air while the resulting ash has to be kept in watered mounds (so the wind doesn't blow them) or covered with dirt because it is also - radioactive. Straight into our lungs!