• Chewy
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    26 days ago

    You’re telling me humanity will able to manage nuclear waste for hundreds to thousands of years, given the fall of multiple great societies over the last few thousand years?

    It’s not even a solved problem how to communicate danger with signs[1], and you think knowledge about where nuclear waste is being stored will be preserved for a thousand years?

    I really envy you for your optimism in humanity.

    [1] https://youtu.be/lOEqzt36JEM

    • @[email protected]
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      06 days ago

      You’re telling me humanity will able to manage nuclear waste for hundreds to thousands of years

      You put it in a hole, done. Humanity is capable of that, for sure

      It’s not even a solved problem how to communicate danger with signs

      We won’t ever know if it is/can be, due to not ever knowing what future societiesoght perceive. We’re doing our best, and can rightfully assume even a fully wiped humanity will learn to stay away from things with our warning symbols on them after a few die from radiation, if that even occurs

      You can also pour shit tons of concrete and other stuff around it to make it clear even without signs that something you do not want is in here

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        6 days ago

        You put it in a hole, done. Humanity is capable of that, for sure

        Looking at the discussion where this hole should be doesn’t give me confidence. Everyone wants long term storage, but no one wants it near themselves.

        We’re producing nuclear waste for half a century and there’s still no long term storage location. The generation who created this early waste is currently dying away and I don’t think the generation after wants to deal with the problem either.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 days ago

          Everyone wants long term storage, but no one wants it near themselves.

          Because of fear mongering, it is not dangerous to stick it in a hole and be done with it

          The generation who created this early waste is currently dying away and I don’t think the generation after wants to deal with the problem either

          Its not a problem