Dr. Quadragon ❌

Sysadmin, Unix punk, Technolojesus, and Free Software freak
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Bit of an SJW. Militant atheist and battle skeptic. Former Devil’s advocate. Devout Saganist.
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  • @DrunkenPirate I’d accept this argument if it were still 1950s.

    The year is 2024. Now we know better what to do with nuclear waste.

    First, it’s actually crazy recyclable. You can separate plutonium and unreacted uranium from fission products and use it again, making your fuel cycle way more efficient.

    Second, you don’t actually need to store the leftover fission products in an on-ground dump, that’s actually mighty dumb. Instead, the borehole disposal can be used. Basically, drill a hole several kilometers deep - that’s easy enough when you take the drilling equipment from all those oil barons - put your fission products in there (they’re quite compact by volume, if you separate it out) and then seal the hole with concrete. Nobody’s going to dig this up ever again. It’s a solved problem.

    Cleaning up sites like Sellafield is just dealing with the wartime legacy, when nuclear research was less about energy production, and more about bombs. It doesn’t have to be this way.