Eli5: What is so bad about the waste of nuclear power plants? Why are many governments so against it? What is so hard about storing the waste in a safe place?
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It honestly isn’t very bad anymore. Governments are against because the people are against it. People have been conditioned to be afraid of nuclear power because early nuclear reactors were much more dangerous and produced a lot of pretty dangerous waste. And that waste would stay dangerous for 100s or 1000s of years.
Modern reactors are incredibly safe and produce extremely small amounts of far less dangerous waste and some even run on waste from the older type and turn it into much less dangerous stuff.
So it’s mostly just a public opinion thing based on how reactors worked out in the past.
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