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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you think nuclear waste is a “solved issue” you just show how little you understand the subject matter. So you’re going to store nuclear waste above ground for a couple of millennia? How’s that going to work out? And thorium reactors might some day become a viable technology. But that is at best decades away. That is not a solution for any present day problem. And what about all those old and aging legacy reactors that are being kept running beyond their design lifespan? Surely nothing can go wrong there.

But it doesn’t matter. Despite all the irrational exuberance of the nukebros it’s just not going to happen. The economics were never there and still aren’t.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So you’re going to store nuclear waste above ground for a couple of millennia?

Literally yes, it’s not just left out in the open air, they’re stored in specialized containers that use inert gas and concrete to block the radiation from getting out. They can also then be buried beneath the ground for extra protection

And thorium reactors might some day become a viable technology. But that is at best decades away.

It is most certainly not decades away at best unless fear mongering managed to slow research more than it already has done, but that’s not an issue with the technology at all

And what about all those old and aging legacy reactors that are being kept running beyond their design lifespan? Surely nothing can go wrong there.

You update them, which is how they’re operating beyond their initial designed lifespan. Current idea in the field is to replace aging uranium reactors with molten thorium as they’re apparently pretty simple to convert over

To quote you on this topic:

you just show how little you understand the subject matter

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- Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re telling me humanity will able to manage nuclear waste for hundreds to thousands of years, given the fall of multiple great societies over the last few thousand years?
  
  It’s not even a solved problem how to communicate danger with signs[1], and you think knowledge about where nuclear waste is being stored will be preserved for a thousand years?
  
  I really envy you for your optimism in humanity.
  
  [1] youtu.be/lOEqzt36JEM
  
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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    You’re telling me humanity will able to manage nuclear waste for hundreds to thousands of years
    
    You put it in a hole, done. Humanity is capable of that, for sure
    
    It’s not even a solved problem how to communicate danger with signs
    
    We won’t ever know if it is/can be, due to not ever knowing what future societiesoght perceive. We’re doing our best, and can rightfully assume even a fully wiped humanity will learn to stay away from things with our warning symbols on them after a few die from radiation, if that even occurs
    
    You can also pour shit tons of concrete and other stuff around it to make it clear even without signs that something you do not want is in here
    
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    Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    You put it in a hole, done. Humanity is capable of that, for sure
    
    Looking at the discussion where this hole should be doesn’t give me confidence. Everyone wants long term storage, but no one wants it near themselves.
    
    We’re producing nuclear waste for half a decade and there’s still no long term storage location. The generation who created this early waste is currently dying away and I don’t think the generation after wants to deal with the problem either.
    
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