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Amortized over thousands of years is miniscule when compared to pollution from fossil fuels that gets "stored" in the atmosphere we breath in.

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There's still 100x more ideas to clean coal pollution, bot nowhere near that to remove atomic solution. Saying something is viable over thousand of years is just dreaming.

Nuclear waste is dealt with

https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radio...

That's sarcasm isn't it? When an article about nuclear waste starts out with "All human activities produce waste" one can be pretty sure that one is in for a treat.

Did you know that in France that gets most of its energy from nuclear only 60% of nuclear waste per capita comes from nuclear power plants?

And only 200g per person per year of total radioactive waste has half life of more that 30 years.

I know this might be a bit challenging knowledge for someone with strong beliefs, but it's worth it to realign your beliefs with reality.

I was in fact thinking it was less than 60% from power plants, especially considering that France has nuclear weapons. Regarding the 30 year half life time. That's somewhat misleading because while it might be true different waste products are often mixed with each other so one has to plan for the longest lifetime parts.

Talking about reprocessing (recycling is a complete misnomer), did you know that reprocessing greatley increases the amount (volume) of nuclear waste? And that it is not really economical, unless you want to make nuclear weapons.

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