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Post #1238598
2026-04-14 08:45 UTC
@cabbagebeets Meh, I think the storage problem is way overblown.
The really radioactive stuff decays in a fairly short period of time and it's kept on-site in water pools (and the Cherenkov radiation looks so cool).
Once it's been there for a few years the remaining material is much less radioactive and very small.
Yeah, it needs to be handled carefully, but there are way more important issues to worry about when it comes to large-scale power generation.
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@Chasteen@hachyderm.io 2026-04-14 15:49
@notjustbikes @cabbagebeets also, third generation reactors can run on waste, rendering it no more radioactive than medical waste. But solar and storage is already so cheap that this no longer makes economic sense.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-04-16 20:29
@notjustbikes @cabbagebeets I had always been under the impression that France had a much better policy by recycling their own spent fuel rods. And the United States had decided to simply store them without recycling them for any number of bizarre reasons.