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"If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each
by fsflover 2y ago
"If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 34 grams"
https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html#howmuch https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html#howmuch
- dotcoma 2y agoIs that a lot or very little? In any case, nuclear is a technology of the XX Century. The future is wind and solar.
- fsflover 2y ago> Is that a lot or very little? Read on my link. It's very little.
- Solarisgood 2y agoWould you be able to store a few kg (after decades) somewhere in your flat/house? I would say yes easily. "Hey we're is your nuclear waste?" "It's under my bed"
- lawn 2y agoThe future needs to first invent cheaper, more available, and more efficient energy storage before we can replace the old power plants. That fusion is the technology of the future does not mean we should dismantle what functions today.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoHow so? As far as I can see, wind and solar are both inefficient, requiring fossil fuels to set up, and particularly with solar panels have long term environmental impacts that we have yet to solve. The panels are difficult to recycle and are not being recycled, and the method to create them leaves incredibly toxic compounds that are difficult to dispose of. While nuclear is incredibly energy dense, far safer than the many coal plant we need to supplement poor “green” energy production, and is comparatively easy to deal with the waste of.
- jodrellblank 2y ago34 grams per person times 3.4e8 people is a bit over 1e10 grams, or ten thousand tons a year? That’s back to sounding like a lot. World gold production is three thousand tons a year, for one comparison.
- fsflover 2y agoThe link compares with the waste from coal, which is still used instead.
- ttepasse 2y agoThat article makes to common error to only define spent fuel as nuclear waste - fuel is just a subset of that.
- fsflover 2y agoSo what are the numbers?