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Nuclear waste in one sense is not a big problem, because it's so compact. If you think of wind, you need to cover vast areas of a country to generate meaningfu
by casenmgreen 2y ago
Nuclear waste in one sense is not a big problem, because it's so compact.
If you think of wind, you need to cover vast areas of a country to generate meaningful amounts of energy.
- mpweiher 2y agoThe material consumption for either wind or solar is around an order of magnitude more than for nuclear.
- tharmas 2y ago>Nuclear waste in one sense is not a big problem, because it's so compact. Neither was the exhaust from the first cars.
- mpweiher 2y agoBut the energy density of nuclear fuels is so fantastic that it remains compact. See https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1162:_Log_Scale https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1162:_Log_Scale
- croes 2y agoIn other ways it’s a big problem. They still don’t have a final repository for it and you don’t need much to endanger many people. Not to mention that nuclear energy leads to centralization what makes it a valuable target for sabotage.
- mpweiher 2y agoNot true. Finland just built a repository. The US one was finished and then shut down for purely political reasons. Wherever it's a problem it is politics. Technically it's a non-problem. And of course temporary storage is also a non-problem, which is why politicians can play stupid games with the final repositories. Oh, and of course we shouldn't be throwing it away in the first place, as it still contains >95% of the energy when we do. We should be recycling the fuel, preferably with reactors that can burn it directly.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoYour point being? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Grid_Corporation_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Grid_Corporation_of_Chin...