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[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Maybe because we still don't have a solution for the waste which kills people generations after your death?

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Can I get some references that compare nuclear waste vs coal, gas, solar, wind waste and emissions?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

All the ones you mentioned except nuclear don't create radiation waste at all.....

[–] ultracritical 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uranium is present in coal in high enough quantities that a coal plant releases more uranium to the environment then an equivalent nuke plant burns in its reactor, and mining for materials for solar panels creates literal mountains of thorium salts and other thorium contaminated debris.

Nuclear plants have the unfortunate position that they actually have to manage their nuclear waste due to its concentration. It's not actually hard to store the waste permanently from a technical perspective, it's just difficult to have the political will to actually do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

In germany we have, after 20 years of search, not one safe place. The one we have for temporal storage is expected to start leaking soon..

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