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RT - Japan set to return to nuclear energy:

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#Fukushima #Fission #NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyPolicy #EnergyMarket

alexanderrogge 7 Dec 22
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Nuclear technology still has one critical flaw: Nuclear waste. Anyone with a fission reactor must be trusted for thousands of years to responsibly control and maintain extremely dangerous nuclear wastes.

There are no vessels which can contain it for even a hundred years. How do I know? I worked as a nuclear engineer for part of my career. Am I completely confident that we will responsibly handle it for the duration? Not really.

So how do we enforce some agency in some government to keep footing that bill to repackage that waste hundreds of times before it cools down enough to be safe? How many human error events will happen on that endless path? Many. And some will be deadly.

The Soviets just walked away from their nuclear wastes, and left it for Russia to allocate funds and manage cleanup and storage. Did they take care of all of it? Did they do it responsibly? No one is completely sure, and we need to be.

Does anyone know the true cost of nuclear power in Russia including the cleanup and management of current and future nuclear waste? That remains not completely certain.

How many countries now with fission reactors can be counted on to responsibly manage that??? I do not have a warm fuzzy feeling that they all will. Given the current government in the US, utterly blinded to the urgency of anything but power and control, will we?

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