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Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power by lostlogin on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:51AM (#13993853)
Is there dispute over the long term toxicity of nuclear waste? It's not hard to find numerous toxic, long lived isotopes. The world has no shortage of waste and the volumes are growing, not shrinking. Im not a proponent of coal, and at the scales my part of the world needs, hydro fills most the need. Yeah, it needs maintaining but that's unlikely to be more costly than nuclear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product

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Re:Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power by vkou on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:39PM (#13997337)
No, but there is a dispute over how dangerous it is - or more specifically, how many people it's likely to kill.

We're close to capacity for the world's utilization of hydro. It can only grow ~20% in the next 30 years - which would let it... Take ~10% of coal's contribution to power generation.

Hydro power is generally cheaper then coal. If we could use more of it, we would be.

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