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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Saturday September 13, 2025 @11:01AM (#45232638)
> From a technical point of view, nuclear waste is a solved problem

When it comes to nuclear waste repositories real experts official publish: "Internationally, it is understood that there is no reliable scientific basis for predicting the process or likelihood of inadvertent human intrusion."

Source: https://international.andra.fr/sites/international/files/201...

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by JackSlateur on Saturday September 13, 2025 @11:32AM (#45232897)
I have no idea how this information relates to the parent post;
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:41PM (#45233865)
A problem with nuclear waste is that living being (especially human beings) must not be exposed to it.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by JackSlateur on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:58PM (#45234438)
Yes

Like magma, sulfuric acid, mercurium, lead, basically thousands of stuff

You eat it, you die

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by baobabKoodaa on Saturday September 13, 2025 @06:37PM (#45235870)
You're being obtuse on purpose and that's not nice. Could you please just respond to the argument in a good faith manner rather than pretend you don't understand the argument?
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by JackSlateur on Saturday September 13, 2025 @07:40PM (#45236216)
Yes

As I said earlier, I do not understand the relation between the answer and its parent

Yes, toxic waste are toxic, this is not the issue (as far as I know)

The issue is the long life of nuclear waste, which is a solved problem due to fast breeder reactor (half life ~30ky, which is nothing compared to what light water reactors produce); Also, the quantity of waste is drastically reduces;

Why are not mass producing them: political issue;

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:20AM (#45239912)
> solved problem due to fast breeder reactor

For this we need an industrial model of breeder reactor. Please name it. There is none.

Many nations (US, France, Germany, Japan...) engulfed huge amounts of money on this quest, during decades.

TLDR: this works on lab reactors cajoled by scientists. It doesn't work industrially.

Russia has (by far) the most advanced potentially pertinent reactors ("BN"), and they work so well that this nation pauses on this architecture (sodium) and is back to the lab (300MWe) with another architecture (lead) named "BREST".

> the quantity of waste is drastically reduces

Therefore it would not solve the problem (we would have to put this waste somewhere then pray that nobody ever mingles with it).

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by JackSlateur on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:12AM (#45240376)
> Russia has (by far) the most advanced potentially pertinent reactors

Wikipedia disagrees

> we would have to put this waste somewhere then pray that nobody ever mingles with it).

Preventing people from killing themselves is not an issue per-se.

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by mastermage on Sunday September 14, 2025 @04:52PM (#45243138)
Ethics?
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by JackSlateur on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:55AM (#45251236)
Knives can kill: should we destroy them ? Height can kill: should we make the earth even ? Rock can kill: should we ban rocks ? Water can kill: should we destroy all waters ?

(yes, this is argumentum ad absurdum; Effort is made to prevent access to the nuclear waste, like all toxic materials)

Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by natmaka on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:04PM (#45252207)
> Wikipedia disagrees

? Please quote and source, or name a model of industrial breeder reactor ready-to-be-deployed.

((nuclear waste))

> Preventing people from killing themselves is not an issue per-se.

"Wikipedia disagrees": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...