I’m totally pro nuclear, but this is a terrible video.
They don’t speak about that the problem with nuclear waste is, it will remain radioactive for millions of years. How do you tell someone one million years in the future that they shouldn’t dig a hole where we just put our waste? How can you be sure there won’t be an earthquake there in the next 1000000 years?
For reference, our ancestors learned the control of fire about a million years ago, just to see what timescale we are speaking about.
The point is the long term handling of nuclear waste is still an unsolved problem, the current solution of putting it sealed underground is a temporary solution, until we can figure out something better.
I’m totally pro nuclear, but this is a terrible video.
They don’t speak about that the problem with nuclear waste is, it will remain radioactive for millions of years. How do you tell someone one million years in the future that they shouldn’t dig a hole where we just put our waste? How can you be sure there won’t be an earthquake there in the next 1000000 years?
For reference, our ancestors learned the control of fire about a million years ago, just to see what timescale we are speaking about.
The point is the long term handling of nuclear waste is still an unsolved problem, the current solution of putting it sealed underground is a temporary solution, until we can figure out something better.
Ars has some nice articles on the topic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/solving-the-rock-hard-problem-of-nuclear-waste-disposal/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/how-do-you-leave-a-warning-that-lasts-as-long-as-nuclear-waste/