Probably pretty expensive, and hazardous. The water can be treated and diluted until it is no longer hazardous, but you now have even more water to store if you don't release it.

I think "social democracy" is fundamentally different in non imperial core countries, due to a lack of a proper dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Still not socialism though.

They couldn't care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment,

This isn't a "steady state" or constant flow of concentrated waste, right? This is a transient event, as far as I understand it. It's not like with micro plastics, where more and more of the waste accumulated (and continues to accumulate) over time.

The approach to disposal sounds reasonable.

you have to assess reactions to the Taliban by their material consequences rather than by what feeling the abstract idealism of a reaction gives you in your tummy

That might be the best sentence on dialectical materialism I have ever read.

It became more and more intertwined with the right wing as the 2016 election drew closer. Gamer Gate and adjacent communities turned into a pipeline for the alt right, with YouTubers like Sargon of Akkad radicalizing libs into fascists.

I watched it unfold on r/KotakuInAction at the time. It was a weird crossroads for me.