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0 pointsUltraSane10mo ago0 comments

" the extraordinarily long time periods necessary. (Nowhere is....)"

This is the the lie that I'm really tired of people repeating. Nuclear waste isn't THAT dangerous and doesn't have to be kept perfectly isolated for THAT long.

"In the future, 600 generations from now, when the poisons we lay down now are bubbling up,"

You should really be more worried about the 36 billion tons of CO2 we are spewing into the atmosphere every year instead of a TINY amount of nuclear waste many thousands of years in the future.

You are like someone with a malignant tumor worrying about the risks of radiation therapy.

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worik10mo ago

The vast majority of nuclear waste needs to be stored only hundreds of years.

But there is still plenty that needs to be stored for hundreds of millennium

There is no answer to that, and no amount of arguing by analogy, argumentum ad hominem nor wishful thinking can make that go away

It is a very good thing we do not need nuclear power

UltraSaneOP10mo ago

"But there is still plenty that needs to be stored for hundreds of millennium"

Stop repeating this lie.

We absolutely need Nuclear. It is the only way to eliminate CO2 emissions from electricity production completely.

worik10mo ago

> Stop repeating this lie.

It is not a lie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product

Wishful thinking on your part

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0 pointsUltraSane10mo ago0 comments

" the extraordinarily long time periods necessary. (Nowhere is....)"

This is the the lie that I'm really tired of people repeating. Nuclear waste isn't THAT dangerous and doesn't have to be kept perfectly isolated for THAT long.

"In the future, 600 generations from now, when the poisons we lay down now are bubbling up,"

You should really be more worried about the 36 billion tons of CO2 we are spewing into the atmosphere every year instead of a TINY amount of nuclear waste many thousands of years in the future.

You are like someone with a malignant tumor worrying about the risks of radiation therapy.

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worik10mo ago

The vast majority of nuclear waste needs to be stored only hundreds of years.

But there is still plenty that needs to be stored for hundreds of millennium

There is no answer to that, and no amount of arguing by analogy, argumentum ad hominem nor wishful thinking can make that go away

It is a very good thing we do not need nuclear power

UltraSaneOP10mo ago

"But there is still plenty that needs to be stored for hundreds of millennium"

Stop repeating this lie.

We absolutely need Nuclear. It is the only way to eliminate CO2 emissions from electricity production completely.

worik10mo ago

> Stop repeating this lie.

It is not a lie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product

Wishful thinking on your part

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