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TIL that All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over the last 60 years could fit on a football field to a height of approximately 10 yards
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We should just launch it in to space in a way it never comes back. And wait
How big an area is Chernobyl? Is it bigger than a football field? I know it’s not in America and I would rather us never have our very own Chernobyl.
Clean Energy.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me
And a coal plant dumps that much toxic ash in a single day.
Interesting that they don’t mention the 10-mile evacuation radius if something goes wrong.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-you-live-within-50-miles-nuclear-power-plant-180950072/