/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10373065
I would bathe somebody like you in nuclear waste too.

>>10373065
a: it will fuck you up, kill you with burns, give you cancer, make your children deformed, etc.
b: that just creates hot spots
c: since it isn't already spread around on the surface in that manner, prior to collecting it from nature, doing this will cause a massive spike in background radiation and cause health problems.

>>10373065
Either the material is a radiological hazard which will decay in a few millennia, or biochemical hazard in which case it will be dangerous for a lot longer time.

>>10373065
not a conspiracytard but I feel like big oil companies have purposely tried to make people scared of nuclear power. if it wasn't for fear of terrorism we could just reuse the nuclear waste in the reactors, or just put the necessary funds to build an infrastructure of thorium based reactors which will produce less waste and also be less dangerous since you can quickly stop the reaction.

>>10373065
>the longer the half life the lower the activity level
L0Lno fgt pls

It gets sold for megamoney hence why nobody but govt is legally allowed to handle it

>>10374731
layman anti-nuc here. Please explain this.

>>10374686
It's no conspiracy, I'm pretty sure tons of companies were shilling against nuclear until wind and solar started getting more popular.

But the reality is that I'd rather have a remote nuclear waste dumping ground than the other bullshit ending up in our air and water. At the very least, you can isolate nuclear waste. The only problem is that nuclear is really only viable in large cities, you'd end up with a lot of excess power. Imho it's the perfect bridge to cleaner energy, though.

>>10374686
With all the accidents in Russia and the UK you need no conspiracy theory. The Irish Sea is as radioactive as the Kara Sea.

>>10375648
yeah, the way I see it is if we put more money into researching it we would make it safer and even cleaner anyways. the Fukushima disaster, which isn't even as bad as media blows it out to be, definitely helped Japan make reactors safer in those situations.

>>10373065
It can be used and combined with uranium extracts from seawater to supply the necessary fissile material

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-seawater-extraction-makes-nuclear-power-completely-renewable/#3ef992d1159a

https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514

>>10373065
based retard

>>10374731
>>10375633
[math]R = \frac{0.693 N}{t_{\frac{1}{2}}}[/math]
where R is activity, N is number of atoms, and [math]t_{\frac{1}{2}}[/math] is half life.
https://opentextbc.ca/physicstestbook2/chapter/half-life-and-activity/

>>10373065
*Honk Honk*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqHTbXm3rs&t=345s&list=LLMpknfkeTk1VB74rxxAfi7Q&index=7