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Radiation from coal goes into the air and tailings, which aren’t well controlled, and stays dangerous for centuries. Radiation from nuclear waste is constraine
by Filligree 10mo ago
Radiation from coal goes into the air and tailings, which aren’t well controlled, and stays dangerous for centuries.
Radiation from nuclear waste is constrained to steel casks in cooling ponds, and the waste can be reprocessed for use in breeder reactors instead of letting it sit.
- rmoriz 10mo agoThe costs of protecting nuclear waste for 100.000 years from terrorists and during wars will be impossible. It's a super easy target. Just attack the power plants and nuclear waste facilities of the opponent and you have won the war.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoWell we've had them since the 1950s, where are all these terrorist attacks? The only nuclear disasters have been accidental, and those were made worse by early reactor designs that didn't account for safety to the degree necessary.
- rmoriz 10mo agoThe Twin Towers were attacked almost 30 years after.