I should really make template comments. Being asked to explain why Chernobyl is not a realistic scenario in the 2020s, with all the available information and previous discussions, has been getting really old...
Or the fact that it hasn't happened despite hundreds of active nuclear power plants around the world (not all in countries that you would expect to have high safety standards).
Same with the waste issue. Nobody asks what the proposed solution is for CO2 storage (it will remain for billions of years! The horror!) when proposing to keep open coal/gas plants a bit longer until we have solar/wind/hydro+storage all set up, but with nuclear we need to find more reasons for the phase-out.
> If these materials are burnt in fuel through recycling, nuclear waste would only remain radioactive for a few hundred years
And that's ignoring that we're also managing to deal with the waste so far just fine, also without recycling.
(The tally is at 40 minutes time wasted for these two answer so far, also because most of the previous one was 'researched' and written on mobile. How long did it take to ask the question? This is why I contemplate templates.)
See https://whatisnuclear.com/chernobyl-main.html#again
Or even just another comment in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653778
Or the fact that it hasn't happened despite hundreds of active nuclear power plants around the world (not all in countries that you would expect to have high safety standards).
Or the safety statistics in general: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Same with the waste issue. Nobody asks what the proposed solution is for CO2 storage (it will remain for billions of years! The horror!) when proposing to keep open coal/gas plants a bit longer until we have solar/wind/hydro+storage all set up, but with nuclear we need to find more reasons for the phase-out.
Here's another info page: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
> If these materials are burnt in fuel through recycling, nuclear waste would only remain radioactive for a few hundred years
And that's ignoring that we're also managing to deal with the waste so far just fine, also without recycling.
(The tally is at 40 minutes time wasted for these two answer so far, also because most of the previous one was 'researched' and written on mobile. How long did it take to ask the question? This is why I contemplate templates.)