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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by saagarjha on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:53PM (#18780853)
> The idea that nuclear waste 'leaks' anything is absurd and defiantly not generally true. While of course the output is toxic, its also highly controlled and does not come into contact with anything. Its long lasting but it also contains lots of useful stuff that, if we continue to use nuclear power and other nuclear byproducts will turn very valuable.

While I view nuclear power relatively favorably, this is an extremely rose-tinted view of the situation. Nuclear waste can and does leak.

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by acidburnNSA on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:24AM (#18782040)
Hanford waste is radionuclides dissolved in acid to get pure plutonium out. It leaks. It's from the Cold War nuclear weapons program. [1]

Commercial nuclear waste is solid ceramic Uranium/fission product-oxide. It does not leak.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/hanford.html

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by nickik on Saturday December 29, 2018 @07:03PM (#18786466)
That's a weapons production cite. In most post I tried to separate civilian power waste from that.

If we look at civilian power production in the last 40 years its basically a non issue.

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by nickik on Saturday December 29, 2018 @07:01PM (#18786457)
Nuclear waste form civilian power production has not done much. Basically not a single person died from it. I tired to separate civilian waste from nuclear weapons waste, that has a worse track record.

The few accidents that have happened are far smaller in scale then the 'horror' stories that people believe in and pretty much all of those are overhanging issue from the early nuclear age.

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Re:A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love... by erikpukinskis on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:15PM (#18784557)
Not in meaningful quantities compared to fossil fuels.
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