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[-] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

To preface, i dont support coal at all, its way worse than nuclear.

If i remember right, the coal thing was measuring radioactivity in the air around coal and power plants. Thats not the nuclear waste im talking about. Spent nuclear fuel is dangerously radioactively for longer than the whole of human civilization. It puts plastic's lifespan to shame. Its no where on the scale of volume as fossil fuel waste, but pound for pound i believe it is the worst substance we can produce.

If you remind me later today ill explain how energy storage is easily solvable, itll take longer than i have now

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So you don't mind radioactivity in the air you breathe around the power stations, but when it's buried deep inside a mountain it bothers you?

[-] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The air radiation thing is misleading, saying the area around coal plants is more radioactive than nuclear plants isnt saying anything, because the air around nuclear plants isnt radioactive.

Most US nuclear waste isnt buried, because we dont have anywhere ready to. Its stuck in on site storage. It might be safely stored for now, but that waste is gonna accumulate like nothing before because of how crazy long it remains dangerously radioactive. Nuclear waste produced 10000 years from now is still gonna be competing with nuclear waste produced today for room to be safely stored.

[-] less_beauty@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago

@blazera @sv1sjp @13esq
The company Moltex Energy claims they can “recycle waste from existing nuclear power stations, and use it to produce more clean energy”. If true it could solve several problems at once.
https://www.moltexenergy.com

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