...wastes kill millions of people each year, by contrast. There is, nor will there be, any way to contain them for eternity.
It would be interesting if someone who is concerned with so called "nuclear waste" could provide a case where the storage of used nuclear fuel has killed as many people as will die in the next two hours from air pollution. But they can't, since legitimate information on this score does not exist.
Unlike radioactive materials, dangerous fossil fuel wastes do not naturally decay, and will thus will be present for, um, eternity.
Some of these materials are very toxic metals like lead and mercury. Sometimes I think that the blank stupidity one sees these days on issues like politics and energy are related to the wide distribution of these neurotoxic dangerous fossil fuel wastes. This would be one possible explanation certainly, for anti-nuke stupidity.
The number of papers in the scientific literature - I've been studying them for more than three decades - detailing how to utilize used nuclear fuel number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It's a fairly straight forward issue to deal with them, were it not for public ignorance that avoids the realities clearly shown in the scientific literature.
Regrettably, however, people who have no scientific or engineering knowledge of any kind still circulate a scientifically illiterate myth that these valuable materials, the components of used nuclear fuel, are problematic.
They are not. Given that in more than half a century of commercial nuclear operations, their storage has resulted in such a low loss of life or damage to health, this should be obvious, but for reasons that are nothing, if not bizarre, somehow these easily verifiable facts are missed, thus resulting in tens of millions of deaths from the far more dangerous fossil fuel waste.
Have a nice day.
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