• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    6 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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      6 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.

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      6 months ago

      I guess that’d work if you live in a very remote area, alone, without neighbors.

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        6 months ago

        Anywhere that has the proper rock formations is a suitable long-term internment location. But as the other guy suggests, yeah you could stick it in his basement in a nuclear cask short term