• TurboHarbinger
    3323·
    5 months ago

    ITT: ignorant people with 20+ years old knowledge.

    Nuclear energy has been safe for a long time. Radioactive waste disposal is better than ever now.

    • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf
      51·
      5 months ago

      Radioactive waste disposal is better than ever now.

      But is it good enough?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        23·
        5 months ago

        Breeder reactors reuse the waste as fuel until there’s a significantly smaller amount of actual waste.

        I imagine if we actually committed to funding nuclear tech, we’d get even better at disposing of it.

        Shit, why not send it into space with Elon’s rockets? Only half joking.

    • uis@lemm.ee
      42·
      5 months ago

      Also you can separate fuel waste from useful part. So even less waste.

    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
      44·
      5 months ago

      Because we can dump the waste down deeper mine shafts, making it easier for us to pretend it doesn’t exist?

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      5 months ago

      I don’t know to laugh or cry when I see peole quote the thousands of years waste storage of nuclear. That’s never been a thing, and never will be.