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You do realize that they made nuclear recycling illegal in the USA right?

Which is ironic because nuclear waste is 97% pure fuel and the remaining 3% has other uses in medicine or have half-lives measured in minutes/hours or are stable (like gold)

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VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t know what this has to do with my post at all to be honest

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- theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s relevant because the less-resource-efficient oil industry has lobbied to make nuclear power artificially inefficient so that their industry can continue to exist.
  
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  - VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I don’t think anyone is arguing for the oil industry.
    
    Even if nuclear power plant byproducts were re-used at 100%, this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.
    
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    bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Solar and wind are nuclear powered. It is just very inefficiently being collected from the massive inefficient fusion reactor in the sky.
    
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    theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.
    
    Maybe true only at small scale.
    
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