Hi John, I promise at some point I will cover nuclear, and that includes waste.
As a short response:
- There are different types of waste
- Most of the waste is actually not that radioactive compared to things like natural granite, or has a quick decay
- The only really radioactive waste seems a lot in weight because uranium is heavy, bu…
Hi John, I promise at some point I will cover nuclear, and that includes waste.
As a short response:
- There are different types of waste
- Most of the waste is actually not that radioactive compared to things like natural granite, or has a quick decay
- The only really radioactive waste seems a lot in weight because uranium is heavy, but is in fact very little volume. All of the very radioactive waste of all nuclear reactors in the world since the beginning of nuclear energy would take a football stadium filled to about 4-6 feet.
- Water stops all radiation, which is why all this waste is quietly sitting in pools for decades and there has been no urgency in solving it through other means
- Finland is just inaugurating a more stable long-term storage
- New reactors ("breeders") reuse that waste so that they extract more energy and the waste has a much faster decay, so that the pbm is not measured in thousands or millions of years, but rather decades or so.
Hi John, I promise at some point I will cover nuclear, and that includes waste.
As a short response:
- There are different types of waste
- Most of the waste is actually not that radioactive compared to things like natural granite, or has a quick decay
- The only really radioactive waste seems a lot in weight because uranium is heavy, but is in fact very little volume. All of the very radioactive waste of all nuclear reactors in the world since the beginning of nuclear energy would take a football stadium filled to about 4-6 feet.
- Water stops all radiation, which is why all this waste is quietly sitting in pools for decades and there has been no urgency in solving it through other means
- Finland is just inaugurating a more stable long-term storage
- New reactors ("breeders") reuse that waste so that they extract more energy and the waste has a much faster decay, so that the pbm is not measured in thousands or millions of years, but rather decades or so.