this is a subject that the USA gov and China even agree on. It is such a shame westerners have such a negative reaction to nuclear energy. but it isn't as profitable as fossil fuels/selling new electric cars so :meow-shining:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/advantages-and-challenges-nuclear-energy

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227103.shtml

    • fed [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      all the nuclear waste rn is still stored at the power plants, and radiation is minimal because of shielding, so I’m not sure what you mean

      • RION [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        nuclear waste is stored in the balls, actually

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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          3 years ago

          We just don't do that because then it would allow basically any country on earth to "legally" produce the fractional products for nuclear weapons

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Depends on your reactor once again. Heavy water reactors don't require any enrichment at any point. If anything it would take more processing than the uranium going in

        • fed [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          big hole, throw it in, seal it.

          the cons of fossil fuel waste are far worse than nuclear, which can, in totality, be stored in buildings right now.

          • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            which can, in totality, be stored in buildings right now.

            Storing nuclear waste requires serious expenditure of time, money, and effort. Are you actually saying American companies (or the federal government) is capable of dealing with this problem? You can't just "store it in buildings".

            The reason I gave you a google link is that you have no idea - zero - about what you're talking about. And I'm really not interested in a "But I think..." argument. Please check out the link.

            Also, this is a really good documentary...

            Into Eternity (film)

            Into Eternity is a 2010 Danish documentary film directed by Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the construction of the Onkalo waste repository at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland. Director Michael Madsen questions Onkalo's intended eternal existence, addressing an audience in the remote future.

            • fed [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              im saying that right now in totality it is stored in designated buildings/on site. and yes the government is capable of storing nuclear waste, they do it right now. right now there is not a solution for the next hundred thousand years for storage, but there is for the next hundred, which I think you would agree is crucial to combat climate change

              • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                yes the government is capable of storing nuclear waste

                Oy gevalt!

                "Capable" is supporting 1,000,000,000,000 tons of bullshit. If you're unwilling to learn, think, and reassess - there's nothing to be done. This convo is over.

                • fed [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  u rite, you are seeing fossil emissions and the lack of any real substitute besides nuclear and consciously deciding that the issue of storage is more important than saving hundreds of millions of lives that unabated climate change will murder

            • fed [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              because it costs more money to make a big hole than just storing in on site.

              short term profit > everything

        • fed [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          oh i thought you meant bc radiation would have adverse effects on the population

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        all the nuclear waste rn is still stored at the power plants,

        Excuse me, what? The Shoshone have been complaining about the US placing nuclear waste on Yucca Mountain, one of its scared sites, for years.