Yep. Nuclear scores very favourably on most life cycle assessment indicators. If you're concerned about the environment you should support nuclear energy
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Replying to @6point626 @GarethDennis and
Isn’t the elephant in the room waste disposal? The UK hasn’t yet found a solution.
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Replying to @ChristineKayNow @6point626 and
Gareth Dennis Retweeted Simon Dalley
That is certainly a challenge, but: (a)https://twitter.com/dalley_simon/status/1201131397211185152 …
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Simon Dalley @dalley_simonReplying to @_markkoenig @pedrojuk and 3 othersBut you completely ignore the "final storage" issue for the *non-nuclear* rest material! CO2. NOx. Toxic ash. It's literally hundreds of thousands of times the mass of spent nuke fuel, which is solid, insoluble, very safely stored, and accounted for to the last gram.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @GarethDennis @6point626 and
Maybe not “accounted for to the last gram”. Sellafield have admitted to losing quite a bit and the Irish are not best pleased to have found some of it. You can’t just cover it in grass like a coal slag heap. Reprocessing was an environmental problem too.
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Replying to @ChristineKayNow @6point626 and
Yeah, but good grief we made a mess of nuclear waste management until the last few decades.
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Replying to @GarethDennis @6point626 and
The last few decades haven’t improved the management as a whole but has at least given government the resolve to contain what remains in the silos more effectively. If we could solve the life cycle problem most people would welcome nuclear energy.
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Replying to @ChristineKayNow @GarethDennis and
There is a unique element to nuclear waste management - time. Humans haven’t managed to keep a civilisation going for 1000 years let alone produce one that can monitor and manage waste for 5000 years. You can hear our descendants cursing us for leaving them the problem from here.
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Replying to @ChristineKayNow @GarethDennis and
I think we have that backwards. The idea that we will be less able to deal with the nuclear waste in the future than we are now is, unsurprisingly, turning out to be completely wrong. Tech progress and experience are opening up new options https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/beyond-yucca-mountain …
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Replying to @6point626 @GarethDennis and
Nuclear waste poses major challenges to governments worldwide. 70 years after the start of the nuclear age, not a single country in the world has a final disposal site for high-level nuclear waste from power plants in operation https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/
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Replying to @Arne_JJ @6point626 and
Yeah but but the waste......https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/nuclear-power-may-have-saved-1-8-million-lives-otherwise-lost-to-fossil-fuels-may-save-up-to-7-million-more/ …
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A Gen IV plant could eat the waste as it’s fuel. In any case, we know how to store nuclear waste.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @JimmyZ51174789 and
Correct. The waste argument is just one of the laundry list. World's first permanent nuclear waste storage: http://posiva.fi/en
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Replying to @langnergroup @ScottAdamsSays and
This facility is for their own waste. The Finnish Nuclear Energy Act prohibits nuclear waste from other countries shall be imported into Finland.
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