Okay people are probably not reading this thread any more but I am an energy dumb-dumb and need something explained.
I was under the impression that nuclear power, while in many ways a step up from coal and oil, produces nuclear waste that needs to be kept under tons of water or something? Nuclear sounds much better but I am scared of these drums of super-concentrated ultra-pollution building up and being inevitably dumped into the ocean
I'm just worried about that containment. Shit builds up, and without a government that won't
hand off disposal duty to some private firm that'll cut corners and dump it into indigenous communities or something, I am not so optimistic.
From what I understand it's pretty expensive to shoot rockets into space already, and doing it regularly would be pretty costly and increases the risk of a cheap ass MuskTek rocket failing and blowing nuclear waste all over the continent
Okay people are probably not reading this thread any more but I am an energy dumb-dumb and need something explained.
I was under the impression that nuclear power, while in many ways a step up from coal and oil, produces nuclear waste that needs to be kept under tons of water or something? Nuclear sounds much better but I am scared of these drums of super-concentrated ultra-pollution building up and being inevitably dumped into the ocean
Nuclear power produces less nuclear waste than coal (per MWh), which just dumps its nuclear waste into the air.
Not that putting nuclear waste somewhere isn't a problem, just not an insurmountable one.
This is a point I hadn't considered. Jesus Christ we are so fucking behind on what we need (SOLAR FOR FUCKS SAKE)
The problem with these stats is they're always murky. Is this including low-level waste, which accounts for 90+% of nuclear waste?
I mean, this is half remembered pro-nuclear stuff from highschool. Not that I'm doing anything useful, so maybe I could try to find data.
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I'm just worried about that containment. Shit builds up, and without a government that won't hand off disposal duty to some private firm that'll cut corners and dump it into indigenous communities or something, I am not so optimistic.
But like legitimately, why don't we just shoot it into space?
From what I understand it's pretty expensive to shoot rockets into space already, and doing it regularly would be pretty costly and increases the risk of a cheap ass MuskTek rocket failing and blowing nuclear waste all over the continent