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by derleth 5020 days ago
> Had it been a gas plant or whatever

... it would have been doing damage constantly, just by operating, in the form of emitting carbon.

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let me just remind the jury that, despite nuclear power being cleaner, there is still this big nuclear waste problem I don't recall us ever solving.
We have solved it, governments just don't enforce it because storing used uranium is cheaper than recycling it.
The numbers I heard a while was something like after first use uranium is 95-97% power, can be reused down to 15-25%. I haven't heard anyone getting this far with it, or even predictions of how radioactive it would be then.
Reprocessing?