Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Give that man a job! So, where are we going to store this utterly toxic material? If you bury it there’s a chance it’ll leak into the water supply. Maybe launch it in missles at at the moon?

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  • Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t mean to be an absolutists and say it could never under any circumstances leak if handled poorly, but even if you just dumped it in a hole in the ground the odds are against that.

    We primarily don’t have long term storage for us becuase it’s too valuable and we’re only currently using a small percentage of its potential energy. In other words we are not done with it.

    Long term storage that exists like Yucca Mountain are heavily engineered to remove risk.

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