(August 10, 2021 at 12:46 pm)Spongebob Wrote:(August 10, 2021 at 12:17 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Stuff it you know -nothing.....
Palisades Nuclear - sitting right on Lake Michigan has every ounce of waste it ever produced SITTING RIGHT ON SITE.
There has never been a plan to move it somewhere else - as it isn' t cost effective. The shit will sit there till it' s containment goes to shit - then it can turn the largest body of fresh water we have into an undrinkable radioactive sludge pond.
You' re just happy to shit all over future generations so you can have cheap juice now...... "Let the grandkids deal with it" is your motto.....
More ignorance.
Yes, the waste is sitting right there, doing absolutely nothing. It's contained. It isn't harming the environment. Not a permanent solution, but still much better than what we do with coal. I'm currently cleaning up a giant poison lake. There have been many disasters at fossil fuel facilities, but ignorant people ignore them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...ear/72814/
The primary reason nuclear waste has not been moved to a "permanent" storage place has very little to do with costs and there most certainly are designs for permanent storage. The issue is just as you stated, no one wants it in their back yard. Plans have been put on hold not because they are too costly or not viable, but because ignorant and fearful people won't accept them in their state despite their state benefitting from nuclear power.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...th/537894/
We are already shitting on this generation, the last generation and future generations, with fossil fuels. Fortunately, we were able to solve some past catastrophes, like acid rain. Yeah, that wasn't cheap. But compared to carbon emissions it was nothing. Future generations will curse us for our selfishness.
You just don' t fucking get it.
The shit stored there will be highly radioactive LONG after the reactor is decommissioned - like 10,000 years and Entergy (the current owners - it was sold in 2007) isbankrupt and non- exustance.....
The storage facility MIGHT last 50 years after it is abandoned - but probably not even that. Radiation does weird shit to materials - think rust on steroids....The containment facility the shit is in simply not designed or intended for long term storage.... It also continues to accumulate.
NIMBYISM does play into building long term storage - but it is minor. Ever heard of imminent domain? If we want to put a nuclear disposal site under your house the government can do it. Not a problem.
What IS a problem is moving the shit.
How are you going to do that - and make it 99.99999% safe? How much firepower are you going to provide to prevent terrorists from stealing it - or just blowing it up to form a monster dirty bomb?
Ever hear of traffic accidents? Give it time - and it WILL happen. I waited for years to see a semi load of fireworks go off - and we got one a fejw years back on I-94. Pretty spectacular.
They' re nervous enough about that with the shit sitting where it is.
