• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Got to ask and why Japan is dumping all that water into the ocean from Fukushima if it’s easy to handle and store.

    Yes, I know, they deemed it safe to do so, but still, why aren’t they just storing it instead (like they have been so far; just make new storage, there’s plenty of land, especially around where people can’t live anymore), if it’s so easy to do so, as you advocate?

    What today’s science deems as safe may be deemed as hazardous by tomorrow’s science.

    Also, transportation to the storage locations, and the maintenance of the storage locations, still an issue. Other forms of energy doesn’t have the storage of waste byproducts problem.

    I honestly think that oil companies have been gaslighting people (no pun intended) about how “dangerous” nuclear is just so they can keep building more refineries.

    Trust me I’m very anti-oil, I can’t wait for fusion to come along finally, and for solar/battery to be better and more widely used than it is today.