there's no solving nuclear waste, human incompetence, hubris and stupidity
There is. LFTR and TWR type reactors can happily burn through most of what is now considered waste, while at the same time the end product will be radioactive for a far, far shorter time. But guess who lobbied massively to have spent fuel vitrified? Ah, yes, there it is: http://www.greens.org/s-r/35/35-08.html
Not to mention that those reactor types are pretty much inherently safe. Fact is that the spent fuel is already there. Let's make good use of it, while at the same time lessening the burden about the waste for the generations to follow.
Greetings,
Chris
LFTR and TWR type reactors do not exist and are not feasible. Your point is moot.
All spent nuclear fuel rods at all nuclear plants around the World are still on site, they don't know what to do with it, no state wants to store the waste.
Nuclear disasters have not been cleaned up, will still contaminate the environment centuries later.
Chernobyl is still a dead zone, still contaminating, still requiring human intervention, still costing. Fukushima's legacy is still developing. Deaths are greater than the Nuclear Industry wants to admit, including Three Mile Island. (~1 million, thousands, hundreds, and future deaths)
Without subsidies to build and liabilities supported by the public, nuclear plants would never be built, are uneconomic, period.
More nuclear disasters will occur, and more frequently, due to aging nuclear plants still in use causing more environmental contamination that will affect life on earth for thousands of years.
Certain high level liquid nuclear wastes can be vitrified, not spent fuel rods. Go ahead and dump spent nuclear fuel rods into an induction heated furnace, see what happens
Half life of plutonium is 24,400 years, needing over 500,000 years (20 half lives) to be diminished. It's serious toxic corrosive radioactive man made stuff that should not be created in the first place.
Radiation is real, not imaginary, not to be taken lightly. I don't buy food originating from Europe, it's too contaminated. (cesium takes 600 years to be gone, not decades) :
Surface ground deposition of caesium-137 released in Europe after the Chernobyl accidentElectricity generated from nuclear plants used by EVs is not clean and not cheap. EVs are not volks wagons, they are second cars for the well to do. The majority of people can't afford them, they are impractical and being subsidized to offset their true cost.
edit regarding food originating from Europe
An Assessment of Radiocaesium Activity Concentrations in Sheep in Restricted Areas of England and Wales Sheep farms under curbs see no end to Chernobyl fallout· More than 400 still face safety measures
· Tests on sheep show high caesium levels persist
cesium has a 30 year half life, so no surprise, it will persist for centuriesex. Swiss cheese and chocolate bars, Polish dill pickles, Turkish figs
but also all food from Japan, all sea food, Hershey chocolate bars from Pennsylvania