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by ViewTrick1002 637 days ago
The problem is not how small the waste is, it is the effects.

High level radioactive waste can cause Goiânia like outcomes, or leach into the groundwater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

It is quite intellectually dishonest to try frame it as pixie dust rather than the true problem it poses.
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davidu 636 days ago
That ranks as one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, and it was really not bad on a human or planetary scale. Carbon-based power plants kill far more on an annual basis.
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ViewTrick1002 635 days ago
No need to compare against fossil fuels, compare with renewables. That is the alternative today.
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hungie 637 days ago
If, and only if, you store it stupidly. There's plenty of ways to safely store it for millennia. It's not a truly difficult problem.

And I'm just doing my best to present the facts as they are -- no fud.

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ViewTrick1002 637 days ago
“Hand waving” we can store it easily for millennia.

The US was founded ~250 years ago as a perspective.

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