SpookieRobieTheCat, 16 days ago

@collectifission What are these solutions that are being blocked? I've not heard of anything remotely resembling a solution. I'm not a scientist so maybe I've not seen them. But even a recent Wild Thing podcast, season 3, about nuclear energy didn't provide any solution. Radioactive waste is forever, at least measured by our existence.

collectifission, 16 days ago

@SpookieRobieTheCat
Radioactive waste is not forever. It loses by far most of its radioactivity in the first 300 years, presuming we deal with it it as if it's actual waste, and not a valuable resource. You can hold a rod of plutonium-239 just fine, and that's the most active substance after that time.

But it is actually a valuable resource, both in energy and other isotopes, that we can recycle if we want to: https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/112438152684318840

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SpookieRobieTheCat, 16 days ago

@collectifission
Thanks for the link. Lots of good articles. Looks like the French have a good system for recycling. Although there's still waste, its reduced. And by saying the radioactivity is forever, I did say by our length of living. The radioactivity is 200-300 years. And it accumulates. All waste is bad. There are people fighting for clean rivers, lakes and oceans.

TonyStark, 16 days ago

@SpookieRobieTheCat @collectifission Waste is unavoidable but we can minimize it and it made my day to see someone I follow ask a question rather than make a statement and thank someone for the answer.

SimpleMan, 16 days ago

@collectifission I would be totally in favor of burying nuclear waste in your backyard or even above ground in your backyard! Just keep it out of public lands and my backyard.

collectifission, 16 days ago

@SimpleMan Please do! This would mean the air quality would improve dramatically in my backyard, as I live next to a big chemical industrial site.

TonyStark, 16 days ago

@collectifission @SimpleMan

NIMBY-ism is more of a challenge to renewable energy progress than maybe any other factor. People also protest things like wind farms and solar panel farms. The issue we have is a degrading planet that is struggling to provide a safe home for billions of people whose lives are endangered by an overheated environment.

collectifission, 16 days ago

@TonyStark
Absolutely correct. In my country, the Netherlands, every small town now has some sort of campaign group active against putting up more wind turbines. We'll need thousands more. Do the math: this will be a social and legal nightmare.

Compare that with a few nuclear power plants. The NIMBYism is far lower for obvious reasons.

Of course, we still need both I'm afraid. We need to embrace ALL technologies to get to zero emissions.
@SimpleMan