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by gdubs 2547 days ago
Fossil fuels already kill millions. According to Stewart Brand, the nuclear waste for one’s entire life would fit into a can of soda. And despite nimbyism, there’s already a solution for the waste in the US: Yucca Mountain.

Oh, and it doesn’t produce the greenhouse gases that are currently threatening global stability in a timeframe of decades.

We shouldn’t minimize a technology’s shortcomings, but we should at least frame it fairly and soberly among our set of options.

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Yucca Mountain was never built and the project defunded in 2011.