Germany racked up one economic success after another for most of this century. But the loss of Russian natural gas due to the war in Ukraine has dealt a severe blow to its industry through higher energy costs.
Most nuclear plants operate in a perpetual state of "well we could shut it down with this plan here but we might as well pay more to keep it running since it’s already there. "
They’re like NASA projects: the project timeline is projected to underdeliver because the worst part about these projects is the initial approval and construction cost: once it gets approved, it’s more economical to keep it running than to shut it down and find an alternative.
But let’s talk about that 3%. Let’s say you took all of it worldwide and stacked it all up. It would be the size of a football field and 200ft high.
Any source for this?
Because the only viable long term storage project i am aware of is in Finland and the facility is magnitudes larger than a football field. And that is just for storing the waste of one country with a very small population.
Also while we talk hundreds of thousands of years for the highly radioactive waste, the medium and low radioactive waste is still a concern for longer times e.g. hundreds of years to a few thousand years. You realize that just 200 years ago the horse was the hottest shit in terms of transportation?
But to get back to your football field analogy. Even if the numbers add up right now, i calculated with the 250.000 tonnes HLW from 2010 and the analogy fits the measurements of our HLW containers, the amount would become much larger with expanding the use of nuclear power. And that is ignoring that the whole thing would melt down and probably explode because you cannot put the containers so close to each other. That is why they have to put each container into its own tomb and nicely space it out. So the facilities will be gigantic, very expensive and again not resolving the issue of the other 97% of waste that you also need to put somewhere.
But how about this? We just put all the nuclear waste into your country, seal off all rivers and aquifiers and put a large concrete wall to keep all people and wildlife in. Then if in 500 years everything is aokay with the waste and your storage facilities did not deteriorate, you can get out again. In the meantime we pay you in food and materials for your service to mankind. Sounds good? If not, then why dont you want to take the waste you just explained to not be an issue at all?
Most nuclear plants operate in a perpetual state of "well we could shut it down with this plan here but we might as well pay more to keep it running since it’s already there. "
They’re like NASA projects: the project timeline is projected to underdeliver because the worst part about these projects is the initial approval and construction cost: once it gets approved, it’s more economical to keep it running than to shut it down and find an alternative.
the running costs also exceed the costs of renewables as the waste issue remains unadressed.
Oh I must have forgotten that storage is free. Silly me.
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Any source for this?
Because the only viable long term storage project i am aware of is in Finland and the facility is magnitudes larger than a football field. And that is just for storing the waste of one country with a very small population.
Also while we talk hundreds of thousands of years for the highly radioactive waste, the medium and low radioactive waste is still a concern for longer times e.g. hundreds of years to a few thousand years. You realize that just 200 years ago the horse was the hottest shit in terms of transportation?
But to get back to your football field analogy. Even if the numbers add up right now, i calculated with the 250.000 tonnes HLW from 2010 and the analogy fits the measurements of our HLW containers, the amount would become much larger with expanding the use of nuclear power. And that is ignoring that the whole thing would melt down and probably explode because you cannot put the containers so close to each other. That is why they have to put each container into its own tomb and nicely space it out. So the facilities will be gigantic, very expensive and again not resolving the issue of the other 97% of waste that you also need to put somewhere.
But how about this? We just put all the nuclear waste into your country, seal off all rivers and aquifiers and put a large concrete wall to keep all people and wildlife in. Then if in 500 years everything is aokay with the waste and your storage facilities did not deteriorate, you can get out again. In the meantime we pay you in food and materials for your service to mankind. Sounds good? If not, then why dont you want to take the waste you just explained to not be an issue at all?