• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, the way we got rid of our military reactor “waste” for decades was selling it to the French, who refined it for their reactors…

    Real waste that’s an issue is radioactively contaminated steal and the like, we can’t use any of that juice, but we can keep refining fuel forever if we wanted to.

    It’s just a big heavy object, and we need big heavy payloads and an excuse to launch them. So let’s take all that real waste and launch it at the sun for the fuck of it.

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      1 day ago

      Military reactor waste predominately goes to the Hanford site, you can actually see it on satellite imagery

      Activated steel is actually super easy to deal with, it gives off gammas which are bad but because they don’t get that hot you can just bury it which is infinitely easier than risking spreading radioactive contamination in the stratosphere and having it rain down on people

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        1 day ago

        Looks like you have a habit of being wrong in nuclear threads and no interest in learning.

        Hopefully people don’t listen to you, but it’s obvious you don’t want any help understanding

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          12 hours ago

          Yes, you must be correct that’s why all the nuclear physicists and nuclear engineers think your idea is ridiculous yet a bunch of people with only a high school diploma think it sounds so smart…

          Another great idea you should look into is the water powered car that all the experts that say it doesn’t work are just owned by big oil