Have you ever heard of Hellen Caldicott? For that matter, construction costs are still too high. Nuclear waste is being “stored” on site against the wishes of the surrounding communities who were promised in the seventies that it was only temporary. The nuclear industry agrees that storage on site is temporary, although it has been there for decades in some instances. Industry is searching for abandoned mines to be deep geological storage. Every community that is a proposed site is against it. By the way, nuclear officials give the time needed for nuclear waste not to be a hazard is 400,000 years.
Who can guarantee safe storage for 400,000 years? Or even half life at 125,000 years? No one. That’s the problem. No one wants to live next to nuclear waste.the nuclear waste we already have is stored at multiple former nuclear reactors now and people living there want it gone. But no place wants to accept it.
There is no place to put nuclear waste. Until such a place and a safe storage method is developed, it would be insanity to produce more. Even the dormant nuclear sites themselves are nuclear waste that would have to be disposed of… at government expense. The nuclear industry wants government money to build more nuclear sites even though they haven’t got a way to deal with the old sites that are no longer safe to use.
Have you ever heard of Hellen Caldicott? For that matter, construction costs are still too high. Nuclear waste is being “stored” on site against the wishes of the surrounding communities who were promised in the seventies that it was only temporary. The nuclear industry agrees that storage on site is temporary, although it has been there for decades in some instances. Industry is searching for abandoned mines to be deep geological storage. Every community that is a proposed site is against it. By the way, nuclear officials give the time needed for nuclear waste not to be a hazard is 400,000 years.
Who can guarantee safe storage for 400,000 years? Or even half life at 125,000 years? No one. That’s the problem. No one wants to live next to nuclear waste.the nuclear waste we already have is stored at multiple former nuclear reactors now and people living there want it gone. But no place wants to accept it.
There is no place to put nuclear waste. Until such a place and a safe storage method is developed, it would be insanity to produce more. Even the dormant nuclear sites themselves are nuclear waste that would have to be disposed of… at government expense. The nuclear industry wants government money to build more nuclear sites even though they haven’t got a way to deal with the old sites that are no longer safe to use.