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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

ITT: ignorant people with 20+ years old knowledge.

Nuclear energy has been safe for a long time. Radioactive waste disposal is better than ever now.

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

Radioactive waste disposal is better than ever now.

But is it good enough?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Breeder reactors reuse the waste as fuel until there's a significantly smaller amount of actual waste.

I imagine if we actually committed to funding nuclear tech, we'd get even better at disposing of it.

Shit, why not send it into space with Elon's rockets? Only half joking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Also you can separate fuel waste from useful part. So even less waste.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Because we can dump the waste down deeper mine shafts, making it easier for us to pretend it doesn't exist?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

I don't know to laugh or cry when I see peole quote the thousands of years waste storage of nuclear. That's never been a thing, and never will be.