On: Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

[slicktux]

That’s great news ! Have they also solved the nuclear waste problem?

Honest question; here in the USA we have not.

[thfuran → slicktux]

It's not really a problem. The alternative is to grind it up into fine dust, spray it into the air, and call it "clean coal".

[fsh → thfuran]

That would poison the entire country. Nuclear waste is many many orders of magnitude more radioactive than coal per energy generated. The meme about coal emitting more radiation comes from a 1970s paper that compared radioactive emissions and found them to be on the same order of magnitude between a BWR and an unfiltered coal power plant.

[fennecbutt → thfuran]

Excuse me that's "beautiful clean coal" I still can't believe that you guys actually chose him as president.

[Moldoteck → slicktux]

Yes, canada aproved repository site. Similar to Onkalo

[measurablefunc → slicktux]

Something for future generations to figure out with their AI chatbots.