It's only when an unforeseen event causes a meltdown, which is not only rare already (as there have been few in decades of use) but also protected against with new standards of construction, operations and maintenance.
Nuclear waste material (from reactors) is stored on-site in heavy metal containers, and this is the only real problem. Those containers are expensive and space is not limitless.
Deep ground disposal is also good. But we are still looking at radioactivity for hundreds of years in some cases.
Look up some videos by Kirk Sorensen, he's a huge advocate of Thorium reactors and explains how they can be used to burn nuclear waste to zero radioactive potential. His view is also that the long half life of some radioactive isotopes makes them less harmful than those with short half lives, as they emit the same amount of radiation but spread out over a much longer period.
Unfortunately (fortunately if it was allowed) Thorium is relatively common, so TPTB can't get their monopoly on it and have buried the technology to the best of their ability.
Tell that to the people who live in the general area of Fukushima or Chernobyl.
These are meltdowns. One due to a natural disaster to a facility not equipped to stand against it, and the other caused by corruption. I suggest you get educated.
Nuclear facilities run every day all over the world, and you can list two instances.
You mean like the ones that exploded at Fukushima a few years back?
You're literally retarded.
Hundreds of years?
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
At that rate it might be environmentally safe by around the time the Sun burns out.
Nuclear waste with a long half-life can be recycled via thorium reactors and brought down to..yes, hundreds of years.
You have no knowledge of anything nuclear, so perhaps you should get educated.
Again, when you reference two facilities with a myriad of problems and one with a natural disaster, you're showing how actually uneducated you are on the subject.
I have said this since day one.
Where the hell do they plan to get the electricity to power 100 million new vehicles every day?
It would probably require doubling the number of power plants required to keep the grid up.
Coal or nuclear? You are doubling the amount of dangerous pollution either way!
And on top of that the law of thermodynamics tells us that a conversion of energy types results in a loss of energy.
The only damn thing electric cars can result in is more pollution than internal combustion engines.
What great ideas will these Einsteins come up with next.
Nuclear pollution functionally doesn't exist.
It's only when an unforeseen event causes a meltdown, which is not only rare already (as there have been few in decades of use) but also protected against with new standards of construction, operations and maintenance.
Nuclear waste material (from reactors) is stored on-site in heavy metal containers, and this is the only real problem. Those containers are expensive and space is not limitless.
Deep ground disposal is also good. But we are still looking at radioactivity for hundreds of years in some cases.
Tell that to the people who live in the general area of Fukushima or Chernobyl.
It's still leeching out at Chernobyl and slowly draining into the Pacific in Fukushima.
You mean like the ones that exploded at Fukushima a few years back?
Hundreds of years?
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
At that rate it might be environmentally safe by around the time the Sun burns out.
Look up some videos by Kirk Sorensen, he's a huge advocate of Thorium reactors and explains how they can be used to burn nuclear waste to zero radioactive potential. His view is also that the long half life of some radioactive isotopes makes them less harmful than those with short half lives, as they emit the same amount of radiation but spread out over a much longer period.
Unfortunately (fortunately if it was allowed) Thorium is relatively common, so TPTB can't get their monopoly on it and have buried the technology to the best of their ability.
Bingo
These are meltdowns. One due to a natural disaster to a facility not equipped to stand against it, and the other caused by corruption. I suggest you get educated.
Nuclear facilities run every day all over the world, and you can list two instances.
You're literally retarded.
Nuclear waste with a long half-life can be recycled via thorium reactors and brought down to..yes, hundreds of years.
You have no knowledge of anything nuclear, so perhaps you should get educated.
Again, when you reference two facilities with a myriad of problems and one with a natural disaster, you're showing how actually uneducated you are on the subject.
Nuclear waste with a long half life that is dispersed into the environment cannot be recycled into anything, you dimwit.
And OF COURSE I am referring to catastrophic failures. It is the catastrophic events that cause the serious issues.
The current situation at Chernobyl is Plutonium 239 has pollinated the environment 100 kilometers in every direction, WITH NO END IN SIGHT.
And Fukushima is leeching a cocktail of radioactive poison into the Pacific day and night, WITH NO END IN SIGHT.
They have happened AND THEY WILL HAPPEN as long as nuclear facilities continue to operate.
You have to worry about radioactive danger when a plant suffers a catastrophic failure.
Which I've covered. Facilities have far higher standards of every aspect than they ever did before, because we learned from the mistakes of others.
Even the Fukushima incident has been used to better prepare for those types of natural disasters.
Also, it's not just a "catastrophic failure", as there are precautions in place to prevent any radioactive leakage.