• Waryle@jlai.lu
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    5 months ago

    In Germany, we’ve got a location with 47,000 cubic meters: https://www.bge.de/en/asse/

    Read your link: 47 000m³ of low and intermediate radioactive waste.

    Low radioactive waste is objects (paper, clothing, etc…) which contain a small amount of short-lived radioactivity, and it mostly comes from the medical fields, not nuclear plants, so even if you phase out of nuclear, you’ll have to deal with it anyway.

    This waste makes up for the vast majority (94% in UK for example) of the nuclear waste produced, and you can just leave it that way a few years, then dispose of it as any other waste.

    Intermediate radioactivity waste is irradiated components of nuclear power plants. They are in solid form and do not require any special arrangement to store them as they do not heat up. This includes shorts and long-lived waste and represents only a small part of the volume of radioactive waste produced (4% in UK).

    So you’re mostly dealing with your medical nuclear waste right here, and you can thank your anti-nuclear folks for blocking most of your infrastructure construction projects to store this kind of waste.

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      5 months ago

      That shit still needs to be stored. I do not know, why you’re berating me about it.

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        5 months ago

        I did not berated you, I corrected you. If being corrected feel like being berated to you, maybe fact check yourself before commenting

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          5 months ago

          They had written that you could fit the entire world’s waste on a football field. I had not interpreted that as specifically referring to high level nuclear waste.

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            5 months ago

            Come on, even the comment above it specifically mention waste generated by nuclear power and its management

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              5 months ago

              The comment mentioned Homer (glowing green rods), I don’t recall any episode where Springfield deals with socks from radiology departments nearby. That kind of obfuscation is kinda par for the course any time you bring up nuke stuff though, folks don’t realize it’s a political problem not an engineering one and most of the anti nuke talking points are fabricated for fearmongering