Our high-level nuclear waste, spent fuel from nuclear reactors, is the most substantive creation of human civilization. It will outlast everything else humans have made.
It is how our descendants will know us, we are the people who made that.
How do we warn the 1,000s of generations who will experience risk from this radioactive waste?
#nuclear #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #Anthropocene @sts @histodons
Eek! the nuclear trolls have found you. I guess they have never heard of plutonium.
As to what are we going to tell 1000s of generations... We clearly have no intention of making it out of this century.
@doomscroller @bojacobs @sts @histodons The half-life of plutonium is about 90 years, our descendants thousands of generations from now will not have to worry about it unless we have a whole thermonuclear war.
Talking about “thousands of generations” without bothering to know anything about the actual half-life of radioactive material, and when we are facing the very real risk of catastrophic climate change which has nothing to do with that…*that* is trolling.
@MisuseCase @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts @histodons
"The half-life of plutonium is 90 years" ??
What a wildly misleading statement. As if nuclear waste was 100% plutonium? (It's not, uranium is the main fuel ) and as if all plutonium isotopes were the same (also, no). And this completely ignores what is left after radioactive decay - the resulting elements can also be toxic and/or radioactive, often much longer.
@taoish @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts @histodons I talked about spent fuel earlier in a different response to the original post if you’re interested.
@MisuseCase @taoish @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts
You guys realise you're spamming the whole histodons group with your flame war, right? I've removed it from the tag list for this post.
(Just to you)
Apologies, I'm not subscribed to that one and I didn't realise it was a group, or I'd have stripped that too!
@VoxDei thanks for the intervention!
@sonjdol I haven't tried, I don't normally get enough notification traffic to worry about it. On a quick glance I can't see a no-ping setting, I guess you could turn off notifications altogether. Depending on your platform you could also probably fiddle with the notification settings either for your server's website or for the app you're using - can probably silence them that way.
@VoxDei hm, OK. Thanks. I might try again, but haven't been successful previously
@VoxDei I would love to turn off the ping, but I haven't figured out how. You?