Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by arez on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:57PM
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exactly, it might not have a big CO2 footprint, but that's not the whole picture, we just don't have any container that doesn't start leaking radioactive shit after some years, so is it really an alternative
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by lambdadmitry on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:32PM
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We do though! The first geological storage is going online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...
There is nowhere to leak when we're talking multi-cm copper casks, metres of bentonite, and half a kilometre of bedrock.
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by ralfd on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:08PM
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Plants with cooling towers (like Isar 2) use evaporation for cooling and don't heat rivers.
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by oaiey on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:40AM
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And where does the water which was not evaporated in the tower? The surplus?
It is raising the water some few degrees. But that is unfortunately enough.
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by lambdadmitry on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:29PM
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The first geological repository goes online next year in Finland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... . It's not in the sparsely populated north of the country either. There are no problems to speak of when you bury something under 500m of bedrock in thick copper and even thicker bentonite clay. There just aren't.
Nuclear energy is climate change wise, surely a good deal but environment wise and human population wise, the thing is not that easy.
And nuclear waste is only easy contained if you are the US, Russia, Canada or Australia. Because otherwise you do not have a significant sized land area where you can burry that waste without creating massive problems.