You find 2 dead workers from an industrial accident over a 70 year history that was not actually about nuclear waste but was a fuel processing and fabrication facility making fuel for experimental reactors. Not civilian power reactors. [1]
Even if you included it (which clearly it's not related to waste so shouldn't) it would still be the safest and best managed waste of anything we have!
The exclusion zone is not nuclear waste. It is interesting though because a lot of research after the event seems to show that the evacuation and such a large exclusion zone was a mistake and we should evacuate less in such events. But in the moment I get everyone was scared and didn't have a good idea of what to do.
"Re-processing facility" means it comes from used rods (i.e. "waste").
This is fine, you can have your thread dedicated solely to waste. Though I do think that waste reprocessing should also be included in such a thread.
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As to the more general matter, people aren't concerned so much with waste, as with everything about nuclear power. Including "accidental waste" such as that caused by the Chernobyl civilian reactor failure.
Yes, I'm glad we're designing and building meltdown-proof reactors.
The long-term waste, regardless of how it originates (whether from conventional waste, decommissionings, or what have you) needs to be processed such that people a hundred, thousand, ten thousand years from now don't have to do anything special about it.
I think this can be done. But without stringent, real-time regulations I am not confident industry, or even government, will do what's necessary.
I said "stored well and safely without issue".
You find 2 dead workers from an industrial accident over a 70 year history that was not actually about nuclear waste but was a fuel processing and fabrication facility making fuel for experimental reactors. Not civilian power reactors. [1]
Even if you included it (which clearly it's not related to waste so shouldn't) it would still be the safest and best managed waste of anything we have!
The exclusion zone is not nuclear waste. It is interesting though because a lot of research after the event seems to show that the evacuation and such a large exclusion zone was a mistake and we should evacuate less in such events. But in the moment I get everyone was scared and didn't have a good idea of what to do.
[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...