
MacroVoices #342 Mike Alkin & Adam Rodman: Can a Nuclear Renaissance Solve the Energy Crisis?
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Is That a Myth?
Nuclear fuel is safely stored on sight in cooling ponds. It's a contained source of waste, unlike other sources thatyouyou take breakdown solar panels after 20 years and throw em into the electronic waste stream. You've got cadmium, chromium,. nickel, ead, you name it, that's just sitting out there, completely exposed to the elements. Is there platonium as part of commercial nuclear power? Yes. But but then you got to get it enriched. The bad guys aren't just coming up with centrifuges, enriching em. So it's just noti it's a very, very complicated thing to do.
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