Who of you have heard about the site for nuclear waste in Asse, near Hannover, Germany? I might be writing an article about that one soon, here on Hive.
What problems about storing nuclear waste have you heard about in other places?
I think the alleged problems are overblown. Some contaminated radioactive waste is inevitable, but I can't shake the suspicion that expended fuel rods are being wasted when they could be reinriched. Admittedly, I am not a nuclear physicist.
I'd agree that long-term storage probably is a moral issue, about people in 5000 years, rather than a materialist one. But a lot of people will have problems with nuclear power used by man kind in the first place. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima and Chernobyl all were a thing.
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are not necessarily intertwined. Fukushima was an old design in a tsunami zone. Chernobyl was an even older Soviet design operated outside its design parameters. Nuclear power is still exponentially safer than anything else.
Poor design isn't really a justification. Even the best system can fail. The problem is that with other sources of power like solar, wind, water, gas, you have a moderate constant risk. Nuclear disasters happen unexpectedly and with massive destruction nobody was able to predict.
Let me make an analogy:
Airplanes are one of the safest mass transit systems we have, but if we only focus on the sensationalized news of tragic crashes, they feel more dangerous.
It's not really an argument against air travel to point at 9/11, TWA flight 800, MH370, etc.
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Not nuclear waste but near me is an old ammunition plant that's already had 2 explosions within the last 20 years. The second one was bad. It shook houses and blew out windows of houses a mile away from it. Thankfully in 2017 they finally removed it all.
It's good they've removed it!
In Belgrade, on a tour, I was told, the castle also had a major explosion in the olden days, when gunpowder was stored in the castle. Weapons are not just dangerous in war times. 🕊
Yes. I agree. These were so dangerous due to the company that was disposing of them went out of business but didn't get rid of everything. The buildings weren't maintained and exposure broke the explosives down and made them volatile.🤦🤬