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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by zwnow on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:03AM (#45944467)
Whats ur solution to nuclear waste?
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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by gazpacho on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:41AM (#45944681)
What’s your problem with nuclear waste? And what’s your solution to the waste produced by solar/wind?
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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by pfdietz on Sunday November 16, 2025 @11:58AM (#45946514)
The waste produced by solar/wind is no different that waste produced by general economic activity. The US produces about 600 million tons of construction and demolition waste each year; solar/wind waste will be small fraction of this.

So, the solar/wind waste bugbear is a red herring, since dealing with it involves solving a problem that would have to be solved in a nuclear-powered economy also.

The opposite is not true of nuclear waste: there is no high activity radioactive waste stream in a non-nuclear economy.

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Re:UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in nor... by realusername on Sunday November 16, 2025 @08:57AM (#45945194)
You just store it?
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