• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    All of the nuclear waste produced by all of the nuclear power plants ever produced could fit on the area of about the size of a football pitch. Storing nuclear waste, isn’t the massive problem. People say it is. It could be easily disposed of by digging a very deep hole and sticking it in it.

    It’s not ideal, sure, but it’s not exactly a huge problem either.

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      6 months ago

      And that hole would of course not deform at all or release the products into the environment over some amount of time?
      We already have that problem… They tried more or less simply burying it in Asse, which spectacularly failed and now has to be brought back up… paid by the government (so us) of course

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        6 months ago

        Not if it’s deep enough and properly encased. And even in the extremely rare occasion there are mistakes made with improper storage or unforeseen environmental changes that require re-storage, the environmental impacts are still negligible.

        The fear mongering around this is absurdly overblown.