Comment on Anon questions our energy sector
Mora@pawb.social 1 year ago
For huge countries as like the US: Maybe. You have enough space to also store the trash somewhere for thousands of years.
For small countries, like most of Europe, where the population density is way higher: hard pass.
Storage isn’t that much of a problem.
Also it’s contained in specific areas, some nerds are bound to wanna reuse what we now thing of as trash/spent fuel. If it’s still radioactive after it just means it radiates energy, we just didn’t commercially learned how to harness it.
Those same countries that found space for all the rest of their industrial waste?
Nuclear waste has a tiny footprint. Fence off a couple square km for security, dig a small but deep hole, and there ya go.
Obviously oversimplifying, but the point is that nuclear waste is a tiny issue. The entire world’s waste could be stored in a single warehouse if we wanted to (we don’t).
iirc nuclear waste isn’t really that big of an issue anymore, they just drill a really deep hole that’s like a foot across and nobody will ever see it again
Birbatron@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I’m quite sure renewables use up way way way way more space than nuclear does, it’s like, one of the main issues.