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by natmaka 397 days ago
> Disagreement

Indeed, my point was about a form of propaganda quite common in France, which states that long-term waste repositories (now work-in-progress) will be perfectly safe. They won't.

> assess the waste?

Most of renewables' waste is recyclable, and more and more is recycled, even wind turbine blades.

> likely number of people killed over the lifetime of the waste

The more types of waste and the longer the lifetime (nuclear...), the more difficult it is.

> count the waste from manufacturing

As far as I understand yes, an adequate life-cycle assessment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment ) has to do so, however this is a good point: it may somewhat be neglected.