Do we have a solution for nuclear waste yet?
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Reprocess it, salvage useful isotopes for known uses, keep a few others for research purposes, don't put it too far away because most of it could be useful in the future.
Afaik that is not an economically viable option.
Which part? France is basically doing this already.
Permanent underground storage where it will naturally decay. Are a couple of different methods available from what I understand. And the amount of material that actually needs to be stored is a fraction of what is instead released into the air, water & soil from fossil based fuel. Not to mention toxins like mercury etc.
Eat it! So many calories. You will never have to eat again.
Do we have a problem with nuclear waste yet?
Yes
Define problem, because it's less waste than old solar panels per megawatt. Both of which we just throw away in special places designed specifically for that waste.
Left: Regular green energy.
Right: Glowing green energy.
Nowv kiss🥰🥰. More seriously I don't understand this nonsense of make fighting two great solution that help to stop the use of fossil fuel industry. Plus they are complementary since we can't store great amount of energy and solar and turbine are intermittent energies
I don’t give a shit at this point. Just stop with the fossil fuels. Whatever it takes. If employing a team of white working class farmer astronauts to run in a hamster wheel is more politically palatable then let’s fucking do it.
It feels like we are either approaching, or have reached, a point where going zero carbon and straight up dumping unprotected nuclear waste in a population center would lead to less suffering and misery than our current trajectory. Obviously that's not necessary or even possible, but that the situation we are in is extremely bleak and fixing it at this point probably requires a level of ice cold motherfuckerness we've never reckoned with.
employing a team of white working class farmer astronauts to run in a hamster wheel
They're engineers and technicians, but I see you're already familiar with the Canadian nuclear power industry. "Hide and seek for a grand a week, or stand in plain view for two"
If nuclear helps us phase out fossil fuels quicker than I fully support it.
The discussion should just be about either solar/wind/hydro or solar/wind/hydro/nuclear. Let’s start with the low hanging fruit and then keep discussing nuclear.
It won’t, but it’ll help the longterm. We can tackle both longterm and short term goals at once.
What we absolutely shouldn’t be doing is engaging in protectionism, and banning imports of cheap solar panels. We don’t have time for that shit.
At least where I live that's a big if. Nuclear in Australia is most often used by fossil fuel interests as a stalling tactic because of how long it would take to get up and running and how expensive it would be, compared to renewables.
Yet if they just did it, we'd have it by now. Any talking point is stalling at this stage.
¿Por que no los dos?
Wait are we supposed to agree with the guy on the left? Cos the last iteration of this meme I saw, the woman on the right (Summer?) was by far the more open-minded one. I just don't know this meme well enough.
It's two people having similar thoughts, don't read into it so much haha
Need CO2 line go down.