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Re: Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green

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Post by LatteLazy » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

q1w2 wrote: post #97

LatteLazy wrote: post #17

As long as those countries are happy to cover the cost of waste disposal or cleanup...

Waste disposal is a solved problem. One barrel per reactor per year is not a meaningful amount of waste.

We have 1,000s of tonnes it here in the UK. And no idea what to do with it. It just sits in barrels or pools and leaks occassionally. This is the low cost option because it's only £2bn a year ($3bn).

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-sellafield-nuclear-wa...

Re: Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green

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Post by silexia » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

Nuclear is by far the greenest of energies... Per unit of power produced, it uses less carbon and is far safer than solar or wind power.

Re: Led by France, 10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green

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Post by q1w2 » Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

LatteLazy wrote: post #141

q1w2 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waste disposal is a solved problem. One barrel per reactor per year is not a meaningful amount of waste.

We have 1,000s of tonnes it here in the UK. And no idea what to do with it. It just sits in barrels or pools and leaks occassionally. This is the low cost option because it's only £2bn a year ($3bn). https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-sellafield-nuclear-wa...

> no idea what to do with it

This is a nonsense comment. The point of STORAGE is to do nothing with it. It's supposed to just sit there.

Also, the only "leak" mentioned in the article, was not a leak at all. It was contained in the secondary container and then moved back into a new primary container. ...and it wasn't even radioactive - it was "just" nitric acid.