To be honest, if nuclear were continuously invested into then we would likely be able to find a way to properly deal with the waste.
What keeps people scared of nuclear are events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but don't consider that Fukushima happened due to an irregular tsunami in a giant glorified island, and Chernobyl had a lot of beaurecratic bullshit and it was covered up instead of properly handled.
In the U.S., this isn't likely to happen. We have stringent regulation on nuclear energy and the buildings that house it.
Well, let me rephrase: I know there are plans in place to deal with the waste, but it doesn't just disappear.
So if we were to expand our nuclear energy, we would want to implement a better plan and continue to crack into the science of radiation and how to deal with it.
But yes: everyone is scared of disaster, but our power plants are built with almost every scenario in mind nowadays.
I know that we will decommission or upgrade plants as needed, but other countries may not be as stringent or have the luxury of doing so. America is, and does though.
the reactors were built in the 60s and 70s, they were maintained of course, they just aren't the latest tech available
they also had studies that warned of higher tsunamis, which they ignored so they hadn't made their tsunami wall high enough...
these conditions are very specific and don't exist in most of the US for example. California is on a fault, but you don't need to build the plants on the fault or in California
To be honest, if nuclear were continuously invested into then we would likely be able to find a way to properly deal with the waste.
What keeps people scared of nuclear are events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but don't consider that Fukushima happened due to an irregular tsunami in a giant glorified island, and Chernobyl had a lot of beaurecratic bullshit and it was covered up instead of properly handled.
In the U.S., this isn't likely to happen. We have stringent regulation on nuclear energy and the buildings that house it.
Well, let me rephrase: I know there are plans in place to deal with the waste, but it doesn't just disappear.
So if we were to expand our nuclear energy, we would want to implement a better plan and continue to crack into the science of radiation and how to deal with it.
But yes: everyone is scared of disaster, but our power plants are built with almost every scenario in mind nowadays.
Fukushima was also a plant that was old
Was it? I missed that part when it happened.
I know that we will decommission or upgrade plants as needed, but other countries may not be as stringent or have the luxury of doing so. America is, and does though.
the reactors were built in the 60s and 70s, they were maintained of course, they just aren't the latest tech available
they also had studies that warned of higher tsunamis, which they ignored so they hadn't made their tsunami wall high enough...
these conditions are very specific and don't exist in most of the US for example. California is on a fault, but you don't need to build the plants on the fault or in California
There are more than 100 reactors in the US