IMHO I do not think nuclear will save us from climate change - it takes too long to get going to be effective - but this is going to really agitate some chud/nerd brains worms

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    Nuclear is all well and good assuming we can develop permanent storage solutions that we can be certain won’t fail for millennia

    OK, so reprocess the waste and you won't have to wait millennia for 99% of the waste to be insignificant. This also has the benefit in that you don't need to mine/enrich as much Uranium.

    The medium lived isotopes can be vitrified and stored in glass underground for a few thousand years, or we can wait until there's enough for it to be worth transmuting into something useful and also more or less energetic.

    • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I agree that reprocessing and vitrification methods should be scaled up and used, but the requirements to store waste for years beforehand while it cools and continue storing afterwards still constrain how much we can increase generation capacity before running into containment issues.