Its cost prohibitive to build new Third Generation reactors that are fault tolerant, and moreso to assure that all the Second Generation reactors are fully fault tolerant given how adjacent they are to flood plains and fault lines in the US
Where the fuck are we gonna put the waste at? Yucca Mountain is off the table for good, WIPP is nearing capacity for a pilot plant, and we have nothing like Onkalo planned out despite the funding being there many times over

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (8 children)

All the waste a plant ever produces in its lifetime can be contained with ease on site. Waste certainly isn't the main issue, though it's portrayed to be. Cost of deployment and staffing are more prohibitive issues, and both are surmountable. I don't think it's a bandaid for all power issues, but it's a powerful tool that should be used more often, not phased out.

[–] storcholus@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

On site? For 100000 years?

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or much much longer. It's not going anywhere. It can't escape its cask, and outside human intervention the casks won't be breached. It's just locked-up metal that gives off some radiation, fully contained within the cask. It isn't oozing green goo.

[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

outside human intervention the casks won’t be breached

Unless due to tectonic activity...

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

They're seismically isolated

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