The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, which sits on a cliff on California’s Central Coast, has been the subject of ceaseless protests and political battles since it was proposed in 1963.
Now, the plant is at the center of yet another major debate. After shuttering all the state’s other nuclear power plants in recent decades, California is considering extending Diablo’s life and lifting a moratorium on new reactors.
That these decisions are even on the table in California is a testament to the substantial change in public views of nuclear energy, which for decades has been reviled by the liberal lawmakers and environmental groups that wield tremendous power and influence in the state.
Many of its leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have expressed support for nuclear energy. The California Legislature last month passed a bill to commission a study on partly lifting the ban on new reactors.
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My long term plan for the waste? Chuck it literally anywhere in its sarcophagus. An old salt mine, a random field, literally dump it in the ocean. Do that, and then sleep soundly knowing that whatever environmental impact you create from doing that with all waste ever created from nuclear power pales in comparison to what we currently do with a single year of coal plants.
The amount of waste from nuclear power is miniscule, and the radiation it gives off is not as high as people imagine. Like yes, it’s still dangerous, but not nearly to the levels decades of oil-industry fear mongering has led the public to believe.
Been there, done that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine)
Sure… (https://www.earth.com/environment/scientists-found-200000-barrels-of-leaking-radioactive-waste/)
Good idea! (https://en.as.com/latest_news/in-1977-the-us-buried-120000-tons-of-radioactive-waste-in-a-pacific-nuclear-tomb-almost-50-years-later-the-ocean-is-threatening-to-expose-the-runit-dome-f202608-n-2/)
Any more ideas that are proven to not work without risk of contaminating the environment with uncalculable consequences?
The miniscule amount of 200,000 tons was already dumped into the ocean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_waste#History) leaking radioactivity there.
Wow look at that! We did all that and no one died! Nor have there been any significant negative effects! Looks like you’re proving my point.
You do know that Uranium oxide is water soluble right?
There are literally billions of tons of the stuff in the ocean already.
https://farmonaut.com/mining/amount-of-uranium-in-seawater-billions-of-tonnes-revealed
And the effects of all of it are easily calculable, because it’s been done.