• SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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          The source you give is comparing the direct surrounding of opperating power plants, it is not talking about the nuclear waste. no on argues living near an (safely) operating power plant is too dangerous, its that you get nuclear waste which is the problem. Sure you can wheel it of to somewhere else, but then its a problem there.

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            I just want to see a comparison between the waste, that’s all. If it really is worse I’ll accept it as worse

            I can imagine It’s easier to manage nuclear waste than fly ash

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        Uranium is present in coal in high enough quantities that a coal plant releases more uranium to the environment then an equivalent nuke plant burns in its reactor, and mining for materials for solar panels creates literal mountains of thorium salts and other thorium contaminated debris.

        Nuclear plants have the unfortunate position that they actually have to manage their nuclear waste due to its concentration. It’s not actually hard to store the waste permanently from a technical perspective, it’s just difficult to have the political will to actually do it.

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          7 days ago

          In germany we have, after 20 years of search, not one safe place. The one we have for temporal storage is expected to start leaking soon…