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You can dig in bedrock that has no groundwater. Furthermore, naturally occurring uranium exists in groundwater and needs to be filtered out in places where lev
by Manuel_D 1y ago
You can dig in bedrock that has no groundwater.
Furthermore, naturally occurring uranium exists in groundwater and needs to be filtered out in places where levels exceed safe limits. So it's not like burying waste is creating a new problem: https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminates-water-california-central-valley https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminat...
- bobmcnamara 1y agoHeavy metal and radiological exposure is not a boolean safe/unsafe.
- Manuel_D 1y agoSure, but the important point is that we already have infrastructure deployed to detect and remove uranium from the water supply on account of naturally occurring uranium.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoThat's...not a very good point.
- Manuel_D 1y agoIt is. Presumably your fear is that uranium from spent fuel might somehow contaminate water supplies, and cause illness. But we already monitor water for contamination from naturally occurring uranium, and have the infrastructure to remove it. So what happens if uranium from nuclear waste somehow works its way into the water supply? We'll detect it and remove it in water treatment, just like how we remove contamination from naturally occurring uranium.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoIt's a terrible argument because it burdens someone else with the risk of cleaning up the mess.