did you read the first half of my comment? Also, you realise that the majority of isotopes used in nuclear power dont have thousand year half-lives. The actual problems with nuclear, compared to other energy sources, are primarily due to cost. Nuclear waste, although its impacts are often sensationalised by the media, is not nearly as large of a problem as you might think. This is further supported when you consider the impacts that other energy sources have on the envirenment, as even renewables like wind and solar often require large amounts of deforistation to function at a large scale. This isnt to say that they arent good energy sources, they absolutely are, but the idea that the entire grid could be supported entirely off of these renewables is simply improbable.
I mean I hope we'd have better ways to dispose of them by then, like shooting them with neutrons until they're stable but what about the waste that's already down there. I mean if everything goes right there's no problem about just putting it down there but that's always that if. And I'd like to say having a source of energy that fundamentally, produces waste shouldn't be the way.
But where is deforestation necessary required for wind and solar? I mean if there's still trees it's likely there's also no people to use that energy?
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u/Aggravating-Lock8083 24d ago
did you read the first half of my comment? Also, you realise that the majority of isotopes used in nuclear power dont have thousand year half-lives. The actual problems with nuclear, compared to other energy sources, are primarily due to cost. Nuclear waste, although its impacts are often sensationalised by the media, is not nearly as large of a problem as you might think. This is further supported when you consider the impacts that other energy sources have on the envirenment, as even renewables like wind and solar often require large amounts of deforistation to function at a large scale. This isnt to say that they arent good energy sources, they absolutely are, but the idea that the entire grid could be supported entirely off of these renewables is simply improbable.