[loeg]

It can be left in canisters on site. It could be dumped in the ocean. It really doesn't matter.

[triceratops]

> It could be dumped in the ocean

FFS no. This is the reason environmentalists don't trust the nuclear industry.

[loeg]

This is a "no" purely for optics; it would be perfectly safe.

[triceratops]

Citation needed.

[loeg]

There's approximately 1.4 * 10^21 kg of water in the ocean. There's about 2.3 * 10^6 kg of waste per year. 10^-15 is a really small number.

(Hell, seawater is already ~3.3 * 10^-9 uranium.)

[triceratops]

Why is heavy metal concentration such a problem in fish right now?

[loeg]

It isn't. And unlike heavy metals, nuclear waste becomes safer over time.