• @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    82 months ago

    nuclear waste is a problem, no one wants to have it buried near their homes

    No one? My basement is available. Go right ahead and pay me and store it. I don’t want to hear a single person make this claim when I am inviting the industry to pay me for my basement.

    • @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      22 months ago

      You jest, but long term nuclear waste storage really is a problem. The public at-large tends to get all NIMBY about it. In the 1980’s, the federal government was working on a long term underground storage facility in rural Nevada, near the Nevada Test Site (aka in the middle of fucking nowhere) and of course the locals threw a giant fit and got the project shut down. As a result, spent nuclear fuel is routinely held at naval shipyards and power plants around the country without a final destination.

      Not a good enough reason to not invest in nuclear power, but a problem nonetheless.