2026-10-18 05:51 UTC
Praising nuclear and deploring the cost of wind? That’s funny, considering the still-unsolved problem of securely storing nuclear waste for thousands of years. It’s almost like we have left the factor with the largest potential cost out of our calculation…
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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2026-10-18 06:09
Unresolved? It’s a super simple problem. You dig a hole, put the waste in the hole and backfill with clay. Done. As a Swede, I would love it if we built a huge underground storage site and sold space to other countries needing space for waste. We have a solid bedrock and a generally stable political situation, we also have the skills to build a facility like it and could make bank off of it.
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@Rakonat@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 07:33
20 years of nuclear waste vs >10 years of wind turbine blades (dumped illegally no less) Which one is the unsolved problem again?