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Re:US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Cle... by whatshisface on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:25AM (#20336022)
Nuclear waste and parts from decommissioned reactors are not that big of a deal, but they are also not 100% clean.
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Re:US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Cle... by nwah1 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:27AM (#20336042)
By that standard, the REEs required for solar definitely aren't 100% clean.
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Re:US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Cle... by twunde on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:43AM (#20336197)
Disposing of nuclear waste is actually a big deal in the US. Last I heard, nuclear waste is kept on-site or close by since the Yucca mountain storage facility was never built[1]. These storage facilities weren't built or meant for long-term storage and could potentially (likely?) have radiation leaks.

edited to add links

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-the-us-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/05/31/new-map-...

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Re:US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Cle... by dasd99 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:39AM (#20336153)
>not that big of a deal

also known as 'who cares, we won't be here'

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Re:US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Cle... by WorldMaker on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:56PM (#20336990)
Maybe more the opposite: in the long enough term radioactive materials are just ugly rocks. It's more the short term storage in the here and now that is the concern for most people, because they are understandably afraid of DNA damage and cancer.
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