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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Did we ever figure out toxic waste disposal?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

solved for quite some time. it gets mixed with concrete and stuck in a bigger concrete container called a "dry cask".

Link, because I believe in "outsourcing critical thinking".

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=Qc0-Z6rVcmS3x78R

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

awesome source, i love Kyle's videos, hes a big nerd and explain things so easily that a neanderthal could understand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Has this been demonstrated to last as long as the waste is radioactive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it literally lasts forever, forever as in humankind existence on the planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

things can be demonstrated by math, wdym?

it has a larger complexity, and more variables to calculate, but overall 1+1 is known to be 2, you don't need the calculator to demonstrate that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

that sounded condescending, but I meant it as a genuine inquiry

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

we tried to, then the state we were gonna stick it all in said "eh maybe we don't want to the country's home for spent fuel, considering how it will stay hot for tens of thousands of years.

so our solution was to just... ignore it. store it in cooling pools at every plant spread all over the country. because hundreds of different waste holding ponds are SURE to be better than the thing we were planning lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Technically? Yes. Well enough anyway.

Politically? Only if you live in Finland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those Fins always seem to have it figured out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They made the hard choice of where to put the waste and stuck with it long enough to build the facility. They call it “Onkalo”. It’s a creepy marvel of engineering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Cool. Is it open for tourists?