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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by notabee on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:51PM (#24254745)
Much of the issue with the waste is that it still doesn't have proper disposal logistics. It's mostly just piling up next to reactors with no place to go.[1] If we still can't solve the storage problem after decades of effort, why should we have any confidence in promises made by that particular industry? [2] If one goes to search for information on the problem, you can see some very obvious SEO manipulation to bring up only industry-positive sites.

1. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/716837443/as-nuclear-waste-pi...

2. https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/department-of-energy-nu...

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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by andromeduck on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:38AM (#24258038)
It's not really industry that failed here but rather the government that imposed a tax for a service that was never rendered and whose revenues were later squandered.
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