Extinction Rebellion #xr UK ex-spokes person:
"For many years I was skeptical of #nuclear power. Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists, I had allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious. A friend sent me a scientific paper on the actual impacts, including the (very small number of) total deaths from radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima, I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time."
And the plan for safely storing long term nuclear waste for 100000 plus years is?
"In the United States alone, the Department of Energy states there are "millions of gallons of radioactive waste" as well as "thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel and material" and also "huge quantities of contaminated soil and water.""
And no, it's not "100000 years". The fun thing about radioactivity is that the more intense it is, the faster it decays. Typical high-level waste goes down to just 30% radioactivity in just 10 years, then to 7% in 100 years and so on.
@kravietz
I don't know of any radioactive isotopes with half-lives of "trillions" or "gazillions" of years.
In 100,000 years you will still have nontrivial amounts of, for instance, Plutonium-239, half-life 24,110 years.
Or Uranium-234, half-life 245,000 years.
Right?