Re:Unplanned Exposure During Diving in the Spent Nuclear Fue...
by laurencerowe on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:44AM
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I mostly agree but we should understand that the costs of dealing with the waste are not negligible. Iām pretty agnostic about nuclear power. I used to believe it was necessary but renewables and batteries now seem the more cost effective and a far faster way to reach 90% carbon free electricity.
I would certainly agree that nobody should actually try to put a year's generation of dangerous nuclear waste in 3 shipping containers. It'd be hazardous and the shipping containers couldn't be moved without breaking (probably do some damage to them even without moving them). The point is more that we're dealing with a volume of material that is - for an industrial society - tiny. There is a reason that in practice it is ignored it despite the braying crowd of people insisting that it is an unsolved problem that we can't ignore. It is an extremely ignoreable problem on the scale of benefits that nuclear power provides.