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Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoAll the ones you mentioned except nuclear don’t create radiation waste at all…
Coal waste (fly ash) releases 100 times more radiation than shielded nuclear waste
scientificamerican.com/…/coal-ash-is-more-radioac…
I doubt solar wind and hydro create any radioactive waste though. Again though would like to see a comparison of their waste vs the shielded casks
This is comparing the direct surrounding of power plants, no on thinks this is the problem of nuclear…
I just want to see a comparison between the waste, that’s all. If it really is worse I’ll accept it as worse
I can imagine It’s easier to manage nuclear waste than fly ash
ultracritical@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uranium is present in coal in high enough quantities that a coal plant releases more uranium to the environment then an equivalent nuke plant burns in its reactor, and mining for materials for solar panels creates literal mountains of thorium salts and other thorium contaminated debris.
Nuclear plants have the unfortunate position that they actually have to manage their nuclear waste due to its concentration. It’s not actually hard to store the waste permanently from a technical perspective, it’s just difficult to have the political will to actually do it.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
In germany we have, after 20 years of search, not one safe place. The one we have for temporal storage is expected to start leaking soon…