Since the waste will almost certainly not be accepted by another state, I would like to know where it will be stored in Georgia. I have some guesses, based on the demographics of adjacent populations, but perhaps the many HN nuclear boosters have some specifics?
Needless to say it is rather radioactive...
But it is easily contained by the water in the pools, and then the dry storage casks it is moved to once it is no longer "thermally hot" and needs constant cooling.
This guy is just your typical anti-nuke posting the classic talking points about all the billions of tonnes of used fuel?
There is a nuclear power plant not far from me. it went "live" in 1973 and all the spent fuel to date is still stored on site.
Step 1 : sit in a pool for around 10 years
Step 2 : sit in a dry canister for a few more decades.
Eventually we need to find a better solution, but the fact remains there is not a whole lot of it.
And yeah, eventually we'll take care of it. Just like we've been saying for 50 years.
Step...
There is no other steps. Don't overthink it. A couple of hot bricks every 5 years isn't something to freak out about.
Fission is not a clean chemical reaction, this is the spread of the atomic masses for different kinds of fission processes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#/media/File:Th...
We’ll be fine.