Submitted by chopchopped t3_y67tc9 in Futurology
Reply to comment by The_RealKeyserSoze in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped
Only if you do not account for the enormous carbon footprint of guarding and managing the super dangerous nuclear waste these poison factories produce, for the next 20,000 years
No that is considered in the IPCC report on lifetime emissions. It’s not enormous. Don’t make up nonsense.
The IPCC assumes that after a couple of years that this super dangerous, difficult to manage radioactive waste just magically disappears into a hole somewhere with zero management or oversight, which is absolutely ludicrous.
The reality of it is that it is going to remain a huge, expensive, liability that needs to be constantly managed and guarded for many thousands of years to come, at the taxpayers expense.
>”just magically disappears into a hole somewhere with zero management or oversight”
It’s not magic, but that is pretty much how deep geological repositories work.
This is not a viable plan, it is vaporware that the nuclear industry uses as an excuse to irresponsibly keep making a super dangerous poison at the taxpayers expense. Even if it was actually built, (which would be super irresponsible) you can't just shove it into a hole and walk away, it will need to be guarded and managed a great expense to the future taxpayers.
It is actually built lol. Finland is finishing one right now. The US partially built one but uninformed people like yourself made sure it was canceled. We burn plenty of “clean coal” instead, great job.
The “hole” doesn’t need to be guarded. It would be really obvious if someone was trying to dig through a kilometer of bedrock.
Yeah, they built on in the USA too, but it is likely never going to be used because there are a number of flaws and obvious safety concerns.
Until it is actually implemented, it is nothing but vaporware.
Also, it's not like they are going to just chuck it in a hole and walk away if they ever actually decide to use it. That would be incredibly reckless and irresponsible. No it is going to need to be guarded and managed for many thousands of years, at the taxpayers expense.
They put an extremely small amount of resources into guarding the spent fuel. The inherent safety comes from engineering safe and secure facilities.
You are overstating this carbon footprint.
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