The U.S has bunkers full of this sludge that will kill anyone who gets close-
Damn, apparently being a climate activist doesn’t involve actually learning anything about what form nuclear waste takes and how the storage process works.
Is isn’t sludge, that’s reactionary nonsense.
The spent fuel pellets are encased in concrete and metal, and can be moved around via a traditional forklift and basic PPE.
The total volume of all nuclear waste ever produced by the entire globe is one of the smallest and easiest to manage compared to other forms, filling up less than a football field.
We’ve recently started working on alternatives to storing it in bunkers which includes putting it back into the ground where it came from originally, below the water line in the rock strata.
The total volume of all nuclear waste ever produced by the entire globe is one of the smallest and easiest to manage compared to other forms, filling up less than a football field.
I didn’t fact check all of you points, but this at least is utter nonsense. In Germany alone we currently have 130.000 m³ of nuclear waste that are stored in temporary storages. We haven’t found a permanent storage yet. 130.000 m³ is equivalent to a 360 m x 360 m square assuming it’s a meter in height. This is certainly more than a football field and this is Germany only.
We estimate that we have about 300.000 m³ nuclear waste until 2080 because of the ongoing deconstruction of old nuclear power plants… And still we have no idea how to store the waste savely and permanently.
Damn, apparently being a climate activist doesn’t involve actually learning anything about what form nuclear waste takes and how the storage process works.
Is isn’t sludge, that’s reactionary nonsense.
The spent fuel pellets are encased in concrete and metal, and can be moved around via a traditional forklift and basic PPE.
The total volume of all nuclear waste ever produced by the entire globe is one of the smallest and easiest to manage compared to other forms, filling up less than a football field.
We’ve recently started working on alternatives to storing it in bunkers which includes putting it back into the ground where it came from originally, below the water line in the rock strata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_'Ndrangheta
They were probably mentioning the risk nuclear waste has, and they are not much wrong about it.
I didn’t fact check all of you points, but this at least is utter nonsense. In Germany alone we currently have 130.000 m³ of nuclear waste that are stored in temporary storages. We haven’t found a permanent storage yet. 130.000 m³ is equivalent to a 360 m x 360 m square assuming it’s a meter in height. This is certainly more than a football field and this is Germany only.
We estimate that we have about 300.000 m³ nuclear waste until 2080 because of the ongoing deconstruction of old nuclear power plants… And still we have no idea how to store the waste savely and permanently.
Source in German: https://www.bge.de/de/abfaelle/aktueller-bestand/