If nuclear is one of ways to obtain green energy, what are the byproducts of the experience and how do we sustainably rid ourselves of said byproducts safely?
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Just stick in a container and leave it here. I know it seem weird, but that very true. People freak out because some of those byproduct last thousands of years, but that doesn’t make them that dangerous. Isotope either decay fast and strong, or slow and weak. You won’t have an byproduct lasting millions of years while blasting high level radiation.
So if you make a safe container, you can just leave it next to the nuclear reactor where it can be monitored. It won’t last forever, but it’s gonna be safe and since we can moniter it we can know when we gonna need to make another containement. Having it next to the reactor also limit the issues of transporting nuclear waste accross the country to an underground facilities, it’s cheaper and make it possible to recover the waste if we ever want to reprocess it.
We can also make underground permanent storage facilities, but it’s debatable if that really the better option.
What is true is that no matter what way we do it, nuclear waste is only a tiny amount. We reject in the environment way more dangerous waste chemical and nuclear on a day to day basis without a care in the world. The issues with nuclear waste is that it’s concentrated, which make it way easier to deal with, but attract way more attention.
Here some good video on the subject, and a video on reprocessing.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnxksKmJa6U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnxksKmJa6U)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5sxV5b5b4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5sxV5b5b4)
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