• RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Would you be surprised that we have dozens of nuclear plants all over the United States? Modern reactors that can withstand the mistakes of the past without the disaster? Media makes the public think the risk is higher than it is when in reality, more people have died per year installing renewables than all the nuclear disasters combined (per GW/H).

    Nuclear is simply too energy dense to ignore.

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      5 months ago

      Where do you put the waste? For how long and at what cost?

      What about the cost of decommissioning nuclear sites at the end of their life?

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        5 months ago

        In the ground, very deep, forever, for not nearly as much money as you might think. It takes up very, very little space. It’s not green liquid that can spill, it’s pieces of glass.

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          5 months ago

          We did that in Germany, and it’s now contaminating groundwater, as the very deep hole is flooding with water.

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            4 months ago

            You put things around the glass so that groundwater never touches the ‘glass’. Again, very different now from the days we started.