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France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids (ourworldindata.org)
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[–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Would you like to source that? ALL of the High Level nuclear Waste from the planet can be fit into a 21m cube

https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-all-the-nuclear-waste-in-the-world/

Medium level waste and low level waste can be deposited in normal surface landfills. LLW is normaly considered non radioactive in 50 years MLW 200. Fun fact there are entire cities that are more naturally radioactive than what we consider MLW. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6709356/

I'd like to make an edit here later on and specify the reason that we do not put it into a 21 m cube is because it would go super critical.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is rather disengenous given I have seen actual waste storage and it takes up way more space. All of it is not shoved in a perfect cube. It tends to be containers withing container withing containers that all are in a facitlity.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    JFC I made a pre-emptive edit an hour before you spawned and explained exactly why that is that we dont jam it all into a super cube. It would fit in that cube though. However we like our waste non supercritical so we chop that big cube into many thousand smaller cubes then tipple wrap them in glass concrete and steel.

    Another great way to look at this is all gold ever mined could be put into a 22m cube, however it is spread through the planet in billions of individual pieces of jewelry, coins, computers, etc.

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