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deng04/26/20253 repliesview on HN

Reality likes to have a word with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine


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viraptor04/26/2025

> we have extremely safe storage solutions

This doesn't mean "we don't have unsafe storage solutions".

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jenadine04/27/2025

An interesting example of bad waste management in the 70's.

But hardly an argument for how safe nuclear energy can be. You wouldn't judge the safety of aviation based on the Wright brothers plane.

Also note that one of the problems on that mine is not only the radioactive waste, but also mercury, lead, arsenic, and other product not coming from nuclear facilities. That kind of waste is dangerous for basically ever compared to the radioactive atoms. Yet nobody talk about it.

Nuclear energy is not the only industry producing nuclear waste. You've got also significant radioactive waste produced by the medical, research, defence, mining, and other industries. And so we need safe waste storage regardless of the existence of nuclear power plants.

GeoAtreides04/26/2025

do you have a link with where all the gigatons of CO2 emitted annually are stored safely?