We don't have any safe way to get rid of the nuclear waste, we can only store it in a way that's probably going to stay secure until we find a way to handle it properly or it's no longer as hazardous
Getting rid of it would mean that we either throw it to the sun (very dangerous launching a rocket filled with nuclear waste) or somehow transform it into less radioactive forming a safe manner
The latter was always doable with breeder reactors and spent fuel reprocessing. France recycles their nuclear waste. They end up with extremely radioactive waste that becomes safe within decades instead of centuries or millenia.
The approach is not without its problems, but there are solutions.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 139d
Waterson had something to say. :)
mmmm@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 139d
Wonder why Hobbes is talking of "we", what did tigers do to the ozone layer?
dbx12@programming.dev · 11 pts · 138d
OddBob212@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
Oh, those innocent times...
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Millennials and younger stopped believing in the system before we stopped believing in Santa.
At least you can make Santa real ðŸ˜
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · -14 pts · 139d
Well, two of these problems are still present concerns today, and the third was always fake.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 139d
We don't have any safe way to get rid of the nuclear waste, we can only store it in a way that's probably going to stay secure until we find a way to handle it properly or it's no longer as hazardous
Getting rid of it would mean that we either throw it to the sun (very dangerous launching a rocket filled with nuclear waste) or somehow transform it into less radioactive forming a safe manner
Badabinski@kbin.earth · 12 pts · 139d
The latter was always doable with breeder reactors and spent fuel reprocessing. France recycles their nuclear waste. They end up with extremely radioactive waste that becomes safe within decades instead of centuries or millenia.
The approach is not without its problems, but there are solutions.