- We have ways of storing waste safely, which are the same ways the planet has stored radioactive material for millennia.
- There are experimental fission reactors that can consume this waste, as well as possible fusion reactors in the near future, so storage may become moot.
- Coal ash disperses a crapton of radioactive material into the air, which is way worse than lodging it deep underground, encased on concrete.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
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- underground storage is starting. And some of them already failed.
- gen4 are experimental since several decades. None of them are commercial
- last low radiation studies should worried anybody working in any nuclear plant.