People like the person you responded to seem to think nuclear power plants are producing tons of high level waste per day.
Fact is most of the used fuel for the operating reactors are safely stored ON SITE because there is actually very little "radioactive waste".
If not for NIMBY disposing the waste would be fairly straightforward. were i live (canada) we have the "canadian shield" which contains rocks as old as 4 billion years.
If we stored super-scary-plutonium there it would remain sealed long enough that all the plutonium would safely decay away.
But the NIMBY state - "it isn't stable, it isn't safe, how do you now it will remain stable". Where exactly is all that rock going? why would it suddenly do this when it has remained in place for a few billion years so far?
People like the person you responded to seem to think nuclear power plants are producing tons of high level waste per day.
Fact is most of the used fuel for the operating reactors are safely stored ON SITE because there is actually very little "radioactive waste".
If not for NIMBY disposing the waste would be fairly straightforward. were i live (canada) we have the "canadian shield" which contains rocks as old as 4 billion years.
If we stored super-scary-plutonium there it would remain sealed long enough that all the plutonium would safely decay away.
But the NIMBY state - "it isn't stable, it isn't safe, how do you now it will remain stable". Where exactly is all that rock going? why would it suddenly do this when it has remained in place for a few billion years so far?