Nuclear waste in general is easily stored, which is not true of ANY fossil fuel. Fossil fuels vent emissions directly into the atmosphere to spread through the environment. Coal plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution on the planet, which is neurotoxic and never decays, but I bet you didn’t know that Coal even produces mercury at all, and that doesn’t even get into the uranium that Coal burning plants emit into the atmosphere either. A coal plant releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere daily than a nuclear plant does in it’s entire lifespan.
The vast majority of nuclear waste (95%) is low level waste that is inert within as little as a few months and requires little to no shielding. This is the stuff like clothing, tools, papers, gloves, etc. The intermediate level waste usually decays within a few decades and needs shielding, but isn’t a long term issue and easily can be stored on site at the plant and is part of the decommissioning plan made before the plant is even built.
The actual amount of high level nuclear waste (the stuff that needs to be transferred to the cooling ponds before even being moved to any sort of storage) is very small (<1-3%). ALL of the high level waste ever created by every nuclear plant in the world would fit inside a football field sized space.
The only reason it hasn’t been dealt with well is NIMBYs that actively refuse to learn and protest because what they know is propaganda or cartoons (The Simpsons for instance) with zero factual basis. And politicians paid by fossil fuels to kill legislation to build and operate the storage facilities, with funds usually sourced originally through government subsidies.
“Easily stored” did not really work out in Germany and costs the tax payers billions more. #Gorleben
Your linked video starts with one of largest straw man argumentations I have ever seen in my life… “You have been manipulated!!! You think that [weird shit that is not true at all]!!! You are wrong!!!”…
But I’m glad that you have a “solution”. Our country gladly gives away the nuclear waste to you for free. When can you come take it?
Considering 99% of people go by what they see on shows like The Simpsons, movies, and games, with things like glowing oozing barrels… It’s a really good bet the average viewer is wrong. Of course an extremely small minority will have more education about it, but given the responses here and in other threads across social media, that’s almost never the case.
I also find it strange that the person always compares nuclear with coal, as if it was a “x or y” thing… Were renewables not yet invented when he recorded the video? Am I missing something?
There are more disadvantages like the fact the fuel rods in Europe usually come from Russia, which is technically sanctioned for transforming Ukraine (ironically, that also includes the area of Zaporizhzhia around their nuclear power plant 🙃) into a war zone. But anyway…
IMO, we should build renewables that are cheaper and invest in battery storage. I wish, my country would have done that instead of China, because both technologies currently generate lots of money for them.
IMO, the main argument of the person in the video does not make sense. He tells that “It’s solved, but people don’t accept it”.
Really? There are 195 countries on this planet and you want to tell me that none of them was like “Oh, I could bury other people’s waste and let them pay me. Easy…”.
We have globalization, we have lots of capitalism, there are even dictatorships that don’t care what the population thinks. Why is there no country on earth that has offered to take the nuclear waste of mine for money and deal with it?
Yes there is, the fact you are trying to claim there isn’t proves you have done zero actual research on this topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k
Nuclear waste in general is easily stored, which is not true of ANY fossil fuel. Fossil fuels vent emissions directly into the atmosphere to spread through the environment. Coal plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution on the planet, which is neurotoxic and never decays, but I bet you didn’t know that Coal even produces mercury at all, and that doesn’t even get into the uranium that Coal burning plants emit into the atmosphere either. A coal plant releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere daily than a nuclear plant does in it’s entire lifespan.
The vast majority of nuclear waste (95%) is low level waste that is inert within as little as a few months and requires little to no shielding. This is the stuff like clothing, tools, papers, gloves, etc. The intermediate level waste usually decays within a few decades and needs shielding, but isn’t a long term issue and easily can be stored on site at the plant and is part of the decommissioning plan made before the plant is even built.
The actual amount of high level nuclear waste (the stuff that needs to be transferred to the cooling ponds before even being moved to any sort of storage) is very small (<1-3%). ALL of the high level waste ever created by every nuclear plant in the world would fit inside a football field sized space.
The only reason it hasn’t been dealt with well is NIMBYs that actively refuse to learn and protest because what they know is propaganda or cartoons (The Simpsons for instance) with zero factual basis. And politicians paid by fossil fuels to kill legislation to build and operate the storage facilities, with funds usually sourced originally through government subsidies.
“Easily stored” did not really work out in Germany and costs the tax payers billions more. #Gorleben
Your linked video starts with one of largest straw man argumentations I have ever seen in my life… “You have been manipulated!!! You think that [weird shit that is not true at all]!!! You are wrong!!!”…
But I’m glad that you have a “solution”. Our country gladly gives away the nuclear waste to you for free. When can you come take it?
Considering 99% of people go by what they see on shows like The Simpsons, movies, and games, with things like glowing oozing barrels… It’s a really good bet the average viewer is wrong. Of course an extremely small minority will have more education about it, but given the responses here and in other threads across social media, that’s almost never the case.
I also find it strange that the person always compares nuclear with coal, as if it was a “x or y” thing… Were renewables not yet invented when he recorded the video? Am I missing something?
There are more disadvantages like the fact the fuel rods in Europe usually come from Russia, which is technically sanctioned for transforming Ukraine (ironically, that also includes the area of Zaporizhzhia around their nuclear power plant 🙃) into a war zone. But anyway…
IMO, we should build renewables that are cheaper and invest in battery storage. I wish, my country would have done that instead of China, because both technologies currently generate lots of money for them.
IMO, the main argument of the person in the video does not make sense. He tells that “It’s solved, but people don’t accept it”.
Really? There are 195 countries on this planet and you want to tell me that none of them was like “Oh, I could bury other people’s waste and let them pay me. Easy…”.
We have globalization, we have lots of capitalism, there are even dictatorships that don’t care what the population thinks. Why is there no country on earth that has offered to take the nuclear waste of mine for money and deal with it?