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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by RealityVoid on Sunday January 27, 2019 @09:51AM (#19011904)
I personally fail to see a solution to the coal waste problem. This gets swept under the rug most of the times, whereas nuclear waste is at least accounted for.

Nuclear waste, according to my understanding, is more of a political problem rather than a technical one. As was the closure of nuclear power plants in Germany.

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by amai on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:41PM (#19118439)
What is the coal waste problem and how is this comparable to the problem of nuclear waste?

Nuclear waste is a technical problem, otherwise it would have been solved already. There are countries like France where they have 80% of their electricity generated by nuclear power and politics is absolutely pro-nuclear. Yet, they don't have a solution to the nuclear waste problem.

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