wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:
Then they shouldn't have any trouble disposing of it (themselves). Anyone, I don't care which province, that decides to use nuclear power, should have a local disposal plan in place before the friggin plant ever goes up. It should not be up to someone else to look after it, nor should it be shipped anywhere near across the country. That's just reflippindiculous. As you said, this guy has flipped his wig.
It is local, we are one nation after all. Unless you want to really start playing the NIMBY game and at it's logical end the waste would need to be stored in location at the plant. Which is stupid on so many levels.
Nuclear fuel is so massively power dense that it makes sense to build power plants near where it is needed to save on transmission costs and energy loss.
The partly spent fuel is so small that shipping it anywhere for storage is economically viable.
Sadly most of the publics knowledge about nuclear power is zero. Most people can't make rational informed opinions about nuclear power, nuclear materials and nuclear waste.
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The heavy water reactors still produce large amounts of waste when looked at from the potential of the fuel they are using. Getting less than 1% of your energy out of the fuel is hugely wasteful.
Lucky for us if we decide to get real about nuclear power you can take that waste and make it into fuel again.
Use up that other 99.5% of the fuel in breeder reactors or liquid fueled reactors.