• @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    Nuclear waste isn’t nearly as much of a problem as it has been made out to be. The danger from nuclear waste is due to its high energy levels. But, reactors exist that can be fueled with the waste products of older, less efficient reactors. They can “burn” high-level waste products, producing energy and low-level waste that is dangerous on the order of decades rather than millenia.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      69 months ago

      And meanwhile nobody talks about coal ash, what is toxic and needs a lot more space for storage.

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        19 months ago

        And it’s also radioactive, and its release is far less controlled than a nuclear plant.