Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term. Erika Benke visits the Onkalo site to find out more.
Yeah exactly. Mostly it’s the “we’re creating all this dangerous waste and leaving it for our children to deal with” 🤦♂️ In any case, buried or not, with nuclear waste we at least have good understanding of it, have ways to measure how dangerous the levels are, etc, unlike all the polution from fossil fuels that everyone seems to just be content with.
Mostly it’s the “we’re creating all this dangerous waste and leaving it for our children to deal with” 🤦♂️
the way that this specific externality has been blown up into Why We Can’t Do Nuclear in the popular conscience but the same has not been done for the horrifying impacts of pollution for coal and natural gas is one of those truly anger-inducing things, especially since many of the people who popularized it and continue to promote it should know better.
Yeah exactly. Mostly it’s the “we’re creating all this dangerous waste and leaving it for our children to deal with” 🤦♂️ In any case, buried or not, with nuclear waste we at least have good understanding of it, have ways to measure how dangerous the levels are, etc, unlike all the polution from fossil fuels that everyone seems to just be content with.
the way that this specific externality has been blown up into Why We Can’t Do Nuclear in the popular conscience but the same has not been done for the horrifying impacts of pollution for coal and natural gas is one of those truly anger-inducing things, especially since many of the people who popularized it and continue to promote it should know better.