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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by TedShiller on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:28AM (#32303414)
> Political will aside, finding a place to store this stuff doesn’t seem like a massive problem.

How about your backyard?

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by jaredklewis on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:33AM (#32305709)
In what sense?

In the literal backyard of my house? No. Of course, I also support windmills, water reservoirs, lithium mining, and electric car factories and don't want any of those in my literal backyard either. The idea that it is hypocritical to advocate anything you wouldn’t want on your own residential property seems like such an obviously ridiculous idea, I'm not sure it makes sense to rebut. There are countless things society wants (factories, mines, landfills, warehouses, etc…) that don’t make sense to do in residential areas.

In my figurative backyard, like the state I live in? Sure, I would definitely support California creating a nuclear waste storage facility.

This isn't really anything groundbreaking. We already have millions of acres of landfills in the US. Like radioactive waste, trash is basically permanent and will be decomposing for at least hundreds of years. And no one wants a landfill "in their backyard," but somehow we still managed to create the thousands of landfills we have today. We can spare a few dozen acres to build a nuclear waste facility.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by TedShiller on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:52AM (#32306785)
> In the literal backyard of my house? No.

Ok, so storage is a problem.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by jaredklewis on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:27PM (#32313860)
Do you not throw anything away? All the trash you've ever created is kept in a landfill on your own property? Impressive!
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by TedShiller on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:51PM (#32314346)
My trash and your trash isn’t toxic to millions of people for millennia
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by Blammar on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:56AM (#32303550)
If I can access the fuel remaining in the rods, sure! I always wanted a 15kw thermal reactor in my back yard... just need a few cubic meters of Peltier pods...
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by ben_w on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:49AM (#32303829)
I'd love to have a backyard big enough for that.

The only problems I would have with it being in my hypothetical back yard would be other people thinking it was dangerous, leading to an urban decay cycle (this also applies to property with unlucky numbers, like 13 in the anglosphere), and/or lots of protesters and/or would-be terrorists not realising how deep the stuff is buried nor now hard it is to shift a multi-ton concrete-filled steel barrel.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by franga2000 on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:16AM (#32303646)
I don't have a backyard, but if it turned out to be the most effective and safe solution to, let's say, dig a deep borehole under my hypothetical lawn, drop the waste down there and seal it back up, why not?

From what I know of deep geological storage, I wouldn't mind living in a house on top of one of these sites. Since they're usually in the middle of nowhere, it would probably be even safer than living in a polluted city.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by TedShiller on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:57AM (#32307934)
> I don't have a backyard

How convenient

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by franga2000 on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:09PM (#32308150)
wow, yes, so convenient that the prospect of having a house is nothing but an unrealistic dream for my generation...

What's your point??

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by TedShiller on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:51PM (#32314350)
If I had billions I’d give it all away. I promise.