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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If France can find space, surely Germany can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If Finland could find space, Germany definitely can.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Idk, Finland has a much lower population density vs Germany. France is something like 1/2 the population density, but they also have >50 reactors, so surely Germany can find room for a few...

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
  • Finland: 338,145 km² and 5.6 million people
  • Germany: 357,596 km² and 82 million people

Where do you want to put your hazardous waste again?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 6 days ago

Yup, but population density should be what matters, because that implies how much usable space there is for waste disposal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Finland with it's vast swathes of frozen tundra.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We don't have vast swaths of Frozen Tundras. This isn't Alaska.

And it's actually stored south not north.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago