Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by erentz on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:17PM
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Ok now you’re conflating two separate things. The link and original figure you shared was about DOE sites. From your link: “EM’s mission is to complete the cleanup of nuclear waste at 16 DOE sites...” You suggested this was connected with commercial reactor waste, it wasn’t about that.
Commercial reactor waste is not anywhere near the same kind of beast. It’s contained and easily disposed of when the US eventually embraces science again. Other countries don’t have as much problem and are building deep geologic repositories. Canada even let local communities bid to take the waste.
If your in the PNW take a visit to Hanford when you can. What they did on these DOE sites during the nuclear weapons programs is absurd to think about with what we know today. They just buried all kinds of random toxic stuff everywhere and didn’t even keep records.
Commercial reactor waste is not anywhere near the same kind of beast. It’s contained and easily disposed of when the US eventually embraces science again. Other countries don’t have as much problem and are building deep geologic repositories. Canada even let local communities bid to take the waste.
If your in the PNW take a visit to Hanford when you can. What they did on these DOE sites during the nuclear weapons programs is absurd to think about with what we know today. They just buried all kinds of random toxic stuff everywhere and didn’t even keep records.