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I am going to call bullshit on the nuclear waste storage problem. Nuclear waste is incredibly dense, and we could simply dump low level solid nuclear waste in the ocean (gasp!) High radioactive waste is incredibly dense.

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Nuclear waste is dumped into the ocean already, contaminating fish: Fukushima, La Hague, nuclear bomb testing, etc. etc. We need a second ocean.

https://www.dw.com/en/fukushima-how-the-ocean-became-a-dumpi...

Yes, and if you read the article carefully, it's not really an issue. Sure they say "A single becquerel that gets into our body is enough to damage a cell that will eventually become a cancer cell," but that's like saying the only acceptable risk is zero, so at odds with reality. The fixation on nuclear waste is amazing, considering we get more radioactivity in the atmosphere from coal and loads of people die because of coal every day. People seem awfully chill about that.

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