>>11252546God forbid we burry dangerous material underground... Oh wait, we actually do. I'm literally living on top of yurops biggest underground waste storage site for all flavors of toxic arsenic, cyanide and mercury compounds, yet no one gives a shit about that, even though these millions of tons of waste will remain toxic forever.
>>11253157And why would anyone do that? The goal should be to build more nuclear plants and infrastructure to replace the fossil fuel based electricity supply present in most countries.
>>11253369>nuclear plants need to be replaced at least every fifty yearsWhat a load of bullshit, nuclear power plants don't have set intervalls for how long they can be used. This is purely based on governments granting operation permits for a certain number of years, which gets usually extended unless there is some kind of political reason to decomission the plant.
>They also need a lot of rare metals, for neutron shielding for exampleThe radiation shielding is mostly done by water and concrete, not exactly rare or expensive materials.
The fuel waste can be largely reused in breeder reactors, the unusable waste can just be burried like we do with every other toxic waste.
"Nuclear fuel" is plenty available, even the uranium sites we currently tap into are going to last for decades to come, and there are plenty of yet untapped deposits like in Australia, nevermind the uranium found in the ocean.
Actually, nuclear power is a whole lot cheaper than renewables if you look at the end result, see Germany vs France, keeping in mind that this is the real world result, not something based on the calculations of some experts in a think tank totally not sponsored by some invested lobbying group.
