Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste will be stored for 100,000 years.
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And yet I keep hearing from nuclear fans that there’s nothing to worry about and that it’s safe. And how is this cheaper than renewable. That place has to be maintained and secured for 100,000 years.
If we put that onto our timeline, we were just getting out of Africa and using stone tools.
That’s not the sort of gift we should be leaving our descendents. Okay we have to deal with what we have, but we shouldn’t be making any more of the stuff. Because there will be an accident somewhen down the line.
People wanting to save the environment for our children, by leaving nuclear waste with a half life time of 24.000 to billions of years for them to take care of, are a certain kind of stupid.
The whole point of doing it this way is that it doesn’t need to be maintained. Once it’s full you just fill the tunnels up (probably with dirt and/or rock) and close them off and you’re good, it’ll sit there for those 100,000 years.
I’ve heard those lines way too often. You cannot build in a way that guarantees safety for every scenario. Your concrete fails, water erodes into the caverns, earthquakes, volcanos, or simply someone digging in that spot. How the hell do you believe we can build something that pasts for longer than mankind has documented it self in any way? The Nazis failed to build something that would last a thousand years, that is a fraction of the time you claim will be absolutely safe