undivided-assUmption t1_is9bbpk wrote
Collective action my arse. I bet your bed doesn't lie 80 miles south of Yucca Mountain. If we can get SpaceX to shot all the toxic waste to Mars, I'd be on board for an all Nuclear energy option. Maybe then we could use the fossil fuel distribution system to ship all the fresh water pouring into the Oceans and ship it my way. Climate change sucks. We're all about to die of thirst out here and we're talking about ethics. Seriously?
KeitaSutra t1_isq7n38 wrote
The waste is so safe you could literally put it in your backyard.
undivided-assUmption t1_it1f4ex wrote
If that wastes safe, we'd be finding ways to profit from the toxic. Not arguing over shipping and holding costs. If, chemistry can't turn nuclear byproducts into cash, and Noone wants radioactive radiation transported through their yard, down their streets, or through their cities, is it really safe?
KeitaSutra t1_it1h5kj wrote
Recycling the waste with fast reactors isn’t economical right now because uranium prices are so cheap.
It’s perfectly safe. SNF usually sits in a cooling pool for a few years and then is moved into dry casks shielded by steel and concrete. Has never killed a single person. Transporter all the time and extremely safe.
PAXICHEN t1_is9k7n1 wrote
Yucca mountain is a crappy place geologically for a spent fuel holding place. But the spent fuel in the casks are very safe. You get more radiation exposure on a trans continental flight than you would standing next to a cask. Source: an episode of The Titans of Nuclear podcast.
undivided-assUmption t1_is9rlnh wrote
I agree. It can't be any worse then the nukes they exploded 90 miles north of my head, when I was a kid. Its as if science couldn't understand that the geology of the great basin is synonymous with ground water. I suppose living my whole life in the heart of the Las Vegas Valley water shed makes me bias towards fall-out.
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