• pedroapero@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Except that powering the world with nuclear would require thousands of reactors and so much more disasters. This doesn’t even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.

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      1 year ago

      This doesn’t even factor the space abandonned to store «normal» toxic materials.

      You mean under ground from where it was dug out?

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        1 year ago

        The plant itself, water inevitably getting in contact with wastes and leaking also.

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          1 year ago

          You mean water under ground? It was in contact million years before any of us was born.

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            Million years were sufficient for the radioactivity to decay before life started to evolve on earth.