Comment on Anon finds a plot hole

• AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  France’s 80 years of nuclear waste takes about the space of an Olympic swimming pool and half.

  In a millena, it’ll be 150 swimming pools, and that’s assuming we haven’t found a way to repair/reuse/recycle it in 1000 years. Or not decided to just yeet it on the nearest inhospitable planet via railcannon or something.

  Nuclear waste is a non issue.

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  • brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it’s such a non issue, how come we still don’t have a single long term storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the world? After more than 70 years of nuclear energy production.

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    • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “If it’s not an issue, how come we haven’t built a thing to solve it”

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      • brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, that must be the reason why the United States pay half a billion dollars of tax payer money each year to the utility companys to compensate their failure in finding a suitable storage location. Not to mention the other 17.5bn the DOE pays every year for handling nuclear waste from power plants.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We do, it’s called (really big hole)[en.wikipedia.org/…/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo…]

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      • brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Which is still not operational, just like the dozens of other potential storages, we started building just to find out last minute that they are not suitable. Or even better, those we started using just to find out they were not suitable to begin with later. I’m curious to read how many billions it will cost to retreive the waste from Onkalo in 30 years when we’ve learnt that it’s also not safe for the next million years.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The money hole?

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