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>> You could grind up all the current radioactive waste into particles and pump it into the atmosphere on purpose, and nuclear would still likely cause less ha
by 7952 11y ago
>> You could grind up all the current radioactive waste into particles and pump it into the atmosphere on purpose, and nuclear would still likely cause less harm than most of the alternatives.
Maybe we should just do that then? It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of it safely. Because the problem is that safety is so massively expensive. And that is a huge factor in deciding if new stations can be built.
- vidarh 11y agoNot that when I wrote "less harm than most of the alternatives" I was referring to most of the alternative sources of power, not alternative storage methods. It would still cause lots of deaths if you did that, it's just that other power generation methods causes lots of death anyway, so in comparison the storage problem for nuclear waste is not nearly as bad as it seems.