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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by ncmncm on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:11PM (#32103854)
Wind turbines are not buried. They are mined for copper and, often, rare-earths.

Unless you are taking about the blades? Sure, they are discarded. It has not been and will not be a problem.

Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by DrBazza on Friday July 15, 2022 @11:36AM (#32109220)
Sure, and we bury spent nuclear fuel and supposedly is a problem according to some groups. If we bury it deep enough, remote enough, and remove access to it, how is it a danger? If the human race loses the ability to read warning signs to stay away, I suspect we've probably lost the ability to tunnel a thousand metres underground as well. It's really not the problem people make it out to be. We have signs around cliffs, electric pylons, and other things with a much higher risk of actual death, and people obey those...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

It's like I said in another post, nuclear is held to some mythical higher standard of scrutiny than other forms of energy generation despite it being better in every way except for up-front cost. All the spent nuclear fuel, ever, takes up less volume than the picture in the bbg article.

Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors by ncmncm on Saturday July 16, 2022 @12:49AM (#32115309)
Wind turbine blades are, simply, not poison. Neither is Si crystal.