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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by forgetfreeman on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:18AM (#35750507)
Nah. You ignore the fact that alpha emitters (like literally anything else) can crap up their surroundings with micro-particles, and while you might be perfectly happy to hold an alpha emitting isotope in your hand you're gonna feel a lot different once you start ingesting them. As stated above your 600 year timescale is off by close to three orders of magnitude, and you appear to be pretending groundwater either doesn't exist or can't move. End of the day you're dead-ass wrong, as is evidenced by the fact that longterm stable storage of high level nuclear waste remains an unsolved problem despite the technology you're proposing having existed in some capacity for roughly a century before the first functional nuclear power plant went online.
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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by evilos on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:59AM (#35769505)
> You ignore the fact that alpha emitters (like literally anything else) can crap up their surroundings with micro-particles

What on earth are you talking about? You realize you are full of alpha emitters?

> As stated above your 600 year timescale is off by close to three orders of magnitude

Nope, see this chart: https://whatisnuclear.com/img/ingestion-radiotoxicity-nuclea...

> you appear to be pretending groundwater either doesn't exist or can't move

That's why you bury it in rock where it doesn't move and we know it doesn't. Like the Permian Basin or where the Oklo natural reactors occurred in Gabon.

Oh yes, did you know nature formed fission reactors billions of years before we did ever existed? This always pisses off the hippies when I tell them. And guess what? The fission products from this natural process moved mere centimeters over 2 billion years.

This is a solved problem. It's just that some people desperately want it not to be.

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