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I can see why people have been scared by the waste, but it's really not a concern. There are long term storage solutions, but they just haven't been implemented in many places. Kyle Hill actually just did a video on one the other day.
The waste just isn't a big enough concern to have put the resources into long term storage yet. The radiation level around the casks is so low that you can be around them and hug them without concern. Flying in a plane is more concerning. This argument is mostly fear mongering so we don't phase out dirty energy. We could have thousands of reactors running, but they've made us scared of the solution so we don't replace them.
Except there aren't any long term storage solutions for highly radioactive waste.
I literally included a link to a video that talks about one in my comment. You can't just make shit up that is already answered in the comment you're responding to.
Please name just one long term storage for highly radioactive waste. While you will fail at that, a second task: try to imagine a facility, that is able to store something safely for 1 Million years. If you can, you are not trying hard enough.
Dude, scroll up! I literally started all this by giving you a video about one! You're ignorant ass assuming you're right, and ignoring what is already provided, doesn't mean that you're actually correct.
The earth has already literally been doing this. There's tons of radioactive material under the ground. In fact, there's literally a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that is safe underground. Here's an article that gives some visual representation of all the nuclear waste, and how little volume it takes up. It's just a matter of logistics to get it underground. In Finland, that's not too hard, because it's small. The US had plans for a solution, but it was logistically challenging to transport it all to one site from all over the US. Local storage makes more sense, and there's plenty of ways to do it. However, the casks are perfectly safe and there's no rush for a permanent solution for a few centuries probably, at this rate.
You can't even name one, you just link to a bad researched video.
How do you know there isn't an ice age in 100.000 years that completly changes the geological structure at those chosen points?
How do you know their copper tanks will last as long as calculated?
It is a silly long time you want to store highly radioactive material and you have to garantee that it won't touch any water sources. That is impossible to proove - everything else is wishfull thinking or targeted propaganda.
Ok, the name is Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository. Is that better? I named it. Now shut the fuck up.
Who cares? So what, the mine collapses and we can't get to the waste. Why would that matter?
They're checked to make sure things are holding up, so who cares? If there's an issue then we'll know about it. If it's in long-term storage then it literally does not matter. The ground is shielding everything. There's radioactive rock all over in the ground.
The fear of radiation is the targeted propaganda. It isn't an issue. We deal with radiation all the time. Our bodies are adapted to fix radiation damage. In fact, there's growing evidence that a little more radiation is actually beneficial, not that a nuclear plant is going to increase your radiation exposure or anything.
Oh wow. That is next level. If someone builds a sauna out of fuel rods, do yourself a favour and don't go in there.
Being next to the fuel rods is a bad idea. That's not where or how they're being stored.
However, I'm not scared of a little radiation. If you are, then don't go outside and live in a lead bubble. I'm not trying to be irradiated, but I don't have some paralyzing fear of it. We adapted to live in a world with constant low-level ionizing radiation. It's only dangerous at high levels it seems. The linear no-threshold model is outdated and doesn't represent reality.
Also, I like that I named the facility and now you're just ignoring that. Do you recognize that it's a thing now?