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by natmaka 281 days ago
> From a technical point of view, nuclear waste is a solved problem

When it comes to nuclear waste repositories real experts official publish: "Internationally, it is understood that there is no reliable scientific basis for predicting the process or likelihood of inadvertent human intrusion."

Source: https://international.andra.fr/sites/international/files/201...
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JackSlateur 281 days ago
I have no idea how this information relates to the parent post;
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natmaka 281 days ago
A problem with nuclear waste is that living being (especially human beings) must not be exposed to it.
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JackSlateur 281 days ago
Yes

Like magma, sulfuric acid, mercurium, lead, basically thousands of stuff

You eat it, you die

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baobabKoodaa 280 days ago
You're being obtuse on purpose and that's not nice. Could you please just respond to the argument in a good faith manner rather than pretend you don't understand the argument?
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JackSlateur 280 days ago
Yes

As I said earlier, I do not understand the relation between the answer and its parent

Yes, toxic waste are toxic, this is not the issue (as far as I know)

The issue is the long life of nuclear waste, which is a solved problem due to fast breeder reactor (half life ~30ky, which is nothing compared to what light water reactors produce); Also, the quantity of waste is drastically reduces;

Why are not mass producing them: political issue;

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natmaka 280 days ago
> solved problem due to fast breeder reactor

For this we need an industrial model of breeder reactor. Please name it. There is none.

Many nations (US, France, Germany, Japan...) engulfed huge amounts of money on this quest, during decades.

TLDR: this works on lab reactors cajoled by scientists. It doesn't work industrially.

Russia has (by far) the most advanced potentially pertinent reactors ("BN"), and they work so well that this nation pauses on this architecture (sodium) and is back to the lab (300MWe) with another architecture (lead) named "BREST".

> the quantity of waste is drastically reduces

Therefore it would not solve the problem (we would have to put this waste somewhere then pray that nobody ever mingles with it).

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